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...about $600,000; in 2002, some 60 Faberge objects for nearly $6 million. Other items have been sold as well, including the manuscript of Abraham Lincoln's last speech and a trove of other presidential documents, a 727 jet named Capitalist Tool and real estate in Fiji and Tangier, Morocco...
We’re certainly a long way from the time when Theodore Roosevelt delivered his blustering ultimatum “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead” after a Greek-American was taken captive by a Moroccan outlaw in Tangier. Of course, Foggy Bottom needn’t necessarily use such provocative language with Beijing. But State must make it clear that enforcing American rights is the highest priority of the U.S. government: a matter of national security even...
...attempt to end her suffering. More striking than the cruelty the Oufkirs endured, however, is their heroic will to overcome it. Despite their weak state and a formidable force of prison guards, they spent years planning escape. From a prison near Casablanca, they made it 200 miles north to Tangier and got word to French journalists in 1987 before being rearrested...
DIED. PAUL BOWLES, 88, individualistic Broadway composer and author of The Sheltering Sky; in Tangier, Morocco. A mentor to Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers, Bowles delighted in rejecting American conventions. He lived as an expatriate--mostly in Tangier with his lesbian wife, writer Jane Bowles--and wrote disturbing tales of innocence corrupted by savagery...
...room in the House office building for a glimpse of some juicy stuff that meets his standards of evidence even if it fell short of Kenneth Starr's. (Once dismissed by the snobs as an exterminator from Houston, DeLay has assumed the image of a dirty-postcard salesman from Tangier...