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...resident of England reported that an unknown person removed his wallet from his back pocket while he was in Harvard Square...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...threat of a potentially devastating antitrust trial must concentrate the mind wonderfully, however, for Gates has finally focused on his Washington woes. And he is attacking the issue the way he storms into any battle he's losing: identify the problem, open his wallet, and buy a solution. In this case, that means pricey Beltway sluggers like former Reagan imagemaker Mike Deaver; Congressman-cum-fixer Vin Weber; and Tom Downey, former New York Democratic Congressman and close personal friend of Al ("Year 2000") Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GATES FIGHTS BACK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...drive-in movie theater, in a restaurant, at a dance. Jack Hardin, a police reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, rushed to the airport not knowing what plane had gone down. When a Baptist minister, who had got to the crash site before him, showed him a wallet and asked him if he knew the name Lionel Theodore Shoebridge Jr., Hardin thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...computer system sits an account containing some 500 mile points from a round-trip Delta Shuttle ticket to New York City. Other than that one trip, I've never flown Delta and don't plan to--but if I did, I've got my frequent-flyer card in my wallet. When friends tell me they don't belong to any frequent-flyer programs, I'm amazed. Why pay for tickets when you don't have...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Free For All | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...Myles is woefully ignorant about people and kind to a fault, and fails to see that guys can be maggots," says Billy, who wears a constant woe-is-me grin that says low-grade grifter; watch your wallet. But while he is no genius, he was smart enough to realize that bringing Myles into this mess gives him a credibility the feds can't ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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