Word: seene
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...laundering affair has focused attention on the need for other Swiss banking reforms. One possible target: the absence of requirements for full, consolidated financial statements. Most Swiss banks use evasive but perfectly legal bookkeeping that eliminates disclosures about the performance of parts of their holdings. What remains to be seen is how vigorously the banks will defend themselves against the reform wave and whether their reputation for probity and prudence will survive the fray...
GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across the U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language debut on Broadway, with the same vibrant staging...
...KINISON: HAVE YOU SEEN ME LATELY? (Warner Bros.). Abusive, scurrilous and hilarious: postpunk comedy meets primal-scream therapy. Offensive? You betcha. But there are wonderful bits about sexism and heartbreak, as well as the best riffs on organized religion since Lenny Bruce...
...worker recalled, he had seen Kilroy, and pointed to a rust-colored wooden shed 400 yards away. There, under a gray, misty sky, the police made a ghastly discovery. In and around a corral, they found several makeshift graves; the overpowering stench of decaying flesh led to digging that eventually uncovered the corpses of 13 males, one as young as 14. Several of the victims had been slashed with knives, others bludgeoned on the head. One had been hanged, another apparently set afire and at least two pumped with bullets. Some had been tortured with razor blades or had their...
Last week's results, while they seemed promising, had a hurried, slapdash quality to them. The jury-rigged experiments were based largely on what researchers had seen in the popular press and copies of the sketchy initial paper by Pons and Fleischmann, which began circulating by fax machine almost at once. At Texas A&M, chemists reported they had measured between 60% and 80% more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given...