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...outings was the highest-ranking thrift regulator in Texas, Linton Bowman, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Dixon sought to win political allies with hard cash. He allegedly had Vernon make illegal contributions to the campaigns of such politicians as California Senator Alan Cranston, former House Majority Whip Tony Coelho and former House Speaker Jim Wright, all of whom have been tarnished by other connections to the S&L scandal. None of the campaigns were aware of the illegality of Dixon's contributions...
...make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from Reno who got his nickname from an oceanic losing streak in Carson City, Nev. (a sure loser is a fish, and a tuna is a big fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just...
...Antonio, Silber concluded it was best to attack early in a fight, a strategy that has been an article of faith ever since. "He learned that if he had to fight, it was best for him to land the first blow," recalls Paul. "If he couldn't whip a man with one arm, he'd figure out how to hit him harder, and that's what...
...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
...LOOK WHAT THE IRS PAYS FOR. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has cracked its regulatory whip at a descendant of the Marquis de Sade, an exporter of French champagne. The issue was not unfit bubbly but the bottle's label: a drawing of a nude woman with a chain across her outstretched arms. A new label shows the woman gowned, holding flowers...