Word: silver
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...Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver dollars was resolved after Fisher flew to Mexico City and searched colonial dungeons to find the original dies from which the coins were struck. "I may have to go to Mexico again and look at the dies to prove these coins are real," says Fisher. "But I will be vindicated...
Roland Dumas had it all. Suave, wealthy and well connected, the silver-haired lawyer, art collector and bon vivant reveled in a life of power and influence. Picasso and Giacometti were his clients. His long list of female conquests included opera singers and models. His best friend was the late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who twice named him Foreign Minister and in 1995 appointed him President of the Constitutional Council, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French...
...because there?s no specific threat of retaliation, Netanyahu?s government believes America doesn?t intend to apply any real pressure,? says TIME Jerusalem correspondent Eric Silver. So the U.S. proposals won?t even be discussed at Israel?s Sunday cabinet meeting, and the Israeli media is reporting that Washington is prepared to extend its deadline by a week...
...envoy Dennis Ross arrives in Israel Friday for talks on resolving the standoff. ?Netanyahu is looking for a way of placating the Americans short of the full 13 percent withdrawal from the West Bank,? says Silver. And with the administration -- Hillary exempted -- backing away from tough love by week?s end, Netanyahu believes he?s won this round. After all, an ultimatum that doesn?t carry any consequences simply isn?t an ultimatum...
Today the industry as a whole is feverishly developing silver bullets for boomers that, like Viagra, seek to rewrite the physical and mental decline genetically programmed into each of us. Among the latest life-style-enhancing remedies...