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...closing the trunk of the car, didn’t realize my dad was so close, and hit the top of his head, which sent him falling backwards,” Fitzgerald said...
...trouble by all accounts, and the allegations released last weekend after the raid are lurid. The FBI charges he authorized bribes of Nigerian officials to drum up business for a Kentucky telecom company, iGate, and that on July 30, 2005, he took $100,000 in cash out of the trunk of a collaborator's car in Pentagon City, and then stored the cash in a refrigerator in his home in plastic food containers. The following month the FBI raided his home and hauled the money away as evidence...
Your Initials, Please The easiest way to identify luggage on the claim carousel is still old-fashioned initials. The idea of customizing travel gear started in France in 1854, when Louis Vuitton, a purveyor of steamer trunks, began hand-painting initials on its goods. Gaston-Louis, a grandson of Vuitton's founder, was obsessed with the trend of customization, particularly the use of stickers as a way of identifying a trunk's journey around the world. Today Louis Vuitton still offers personalization services--including hand-painting initials, stripes and crests in a choice of 15 colors...
...their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until Sole, returning to Madrid, opens the trunk of her car and finds Irene, the corporeal ghost, scrunched up inside. Mom expects to "live" with her daughter; and Sole, ever dutiful, obliges, as long as she helps Sole in the hairdressing business she runs out of her home, and hides in the bedroom whenever Raimunda drops...
...National Guard to help do that, is nominally based on national security. But why then is no one proposing sending additional National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Canada border? Don't laugh. Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium Bomber, was caught at the Canadian border with a trunk full of explosive precursor material and a plot to bomb Los Angeles Airport. And as for the notion that terrorists are mixing with undocumented border crossers to infiltrate the country from the south, all 19 of the 9/11 plotters entered the U.S. legally...