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...Illinois resident staying at the Charles Hotel reported that an unknown person turned down his bed and moved his pants while he was out for the day. Missing from the room was $1,000 cash, credit cards and personal papers...
This was a question that was asked--or perhaps not asked--by hundreds of bankers dealing with Russia in the past decade. Money gushed out of the country for accounts unknown. But it is hard for investigators--to say nothing of politicians--to make a distinction between who was actively helping the Russians rob their economy and who was simply practicing don't-ask banking...
...glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says, "and some things are not retrievable. They become memories...
...beginning, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [or Philosopher's Stone, as it was originally named], written by a previously unknown author named J. (for Joanne) K. Rowling, appeared in Britain in June 1997 as a juvenile-fiction title. Abracadabra! it careered to the top of the adult best-seller lists. The same eerie thing happened when the book was published September...
...small staff of Valve is a diverse group with one other Harvard alum--a fact unknown to Newell until after the employee had been hired. Career networking, he says, is more successful between programmers working on projects together...