Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yorker Naomi Weisz Nagel, 56, the story began with precious coded letters miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia by her parents in 1943. An aunt who survived the war showed her how the letters contained the numbers of a secret Swiss account disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money...
Papers dealing with the project had begun to be declassified after the requisite 50 years, and Singer was fascinated by the possibility of digging into such secret government files. At least 130 members of his family were killed by the German machine in a single day. "They can't bring those people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts...
Like so many other towns in this part of the Pacific Northwest--including Microsoft's hometown, Redmond--Orting was built in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and Mount Rainier has a nasty little secret. Beneath the 14,410-ft. mountain's sugary caps and forested flanks lies a mammoth, smoldering pot of magma. Summoned up from the earth's subterranean ovens perhaps 40 miles below, the molten rock simmers under the mountain at up to 3600[degrees]F. As the magma cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time...
...then there's Penn. Its biggest threat is normally junior forward Michelle Maldonaldo, who leads the Quakers in scoring (15.1 ppg) and rebounding (11.1 rpg). But Harvard seems to have found the secret to Maldonaldo two weekends ago, when she managed just seven points on 2-of-10 shooting against the Crimson...
Some seemed offended by the cold demeanor and untraceable sense of humor that the van-loads of secret services agents and national reporters brought with them from Washington...