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...direct links with the Durango Mafia. We listen to the street talk and occasionally we get a report that so many k's (kilograms) are coming up." At that point the Americans pass on the information to Mexican police and hope, often vainly, for the best. "It is not unknown," says a U.S. official, "for DEA agents to give the name of someone to Mexican cops and then learn the guy was tipped off and has gone underground...
...Christmas party at Massachusetts Hall, home to Harvard's central adminstration, coworkers gave President Derek C. Bok a pike and matching garbage bag to boost efforts to pick up trash in the Yard. Whether Bok ever used these implements remains unknown even to this day; either way, it's clear that the University he governs is concerned not only with its physical look, but also its reputation...
...garments have as firm a claim on the title of fashion classic as the polo shirt, or, as Ralph Lauren calls it, the Polo shirt. The exact origin of the knitted-cotton, soft-collar shirt with a floppy tail is unknown, but its widely recorded debut came in 1893, when it was worn by polo players at the swank Hurlingham Club, near Buenos Aires. Compared with traditional British polo wear of the era, the new tops were cooler and less restrictive. In 1920 one of Argentina's polo stars, Lewis Lacey, opened a sports shop in Buenos Aires, where...
...mail-order empire, videotapes an alien nymphet darting through the woods. Back at Coldharbor, his apartment complex in New York, he reruns the pictures and falls in love with the lithe image. Moura Allbright, Hooper's sister-in-law, returns to the city with a desire to locate the unknown father of her son. Some 15 years before, she conceived after two years of copulating with a masked inseminator who had been eugenically selected at a "contact clinic." Fizzy, Moura's biologically tailored offspring, is the liveliest illustration of Theroux's future shock. He combines scientific genius with an arrogant...
...arrived by car. Firing 60-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, the attackers concentrated on well-populated areas, including a beach and a sports complex. Miraculously, casualties were limited to two injured women and a slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown group, claimed in Beirut that it had carried out the raid primarily in retaliation for British support of the U.S. bombing of Libya. American F-111 jets used in the raid took off from British soil...