Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your report on Citibank's close relationship with Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas [BUSINESS, Dec. 14], there were a few points I did not understand. You said Raul Salinas' wife, using an alias, carried cashier's checks to Citibank Mexico City. Since these were for very large sums of money, I should think someone in Citibank's private-banking unit would have asked immediately about the origin of that money. Further, you noted that once Citibank had the funds, "no documents linked that money to Salinas." That shows an extraordinary amount of trust on Salinas' part...
...enough that The Prince of Egypt has Pharaoh's wife, rather than daughter, rescuing the infant Moses. But to depict the Israelites as having built the pyramids? Come on! Cheops erected his massive stone piles centuries before Joseph was sold into slavery! Holy Writ says the Hebrew slaves "built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses," not pyramids. ALFRED R. MATTHEWS Huntsville...
Imagine a Chinese leader being arrested for past human-rights violations while shopping in London. Let's cut out meddling in another nation's sovereignty. Besides, I want peace at home--I am British and have a Chilean wife! DAVID ALCOCK Johannesburg
DIED. ANITA HOFFMAN, 56, social activist; of breast cancer; in San Francisco. Wife of the late Yippie Abbie, Hoffman joined her husband in some of his more outlandish activities, such as disrupting trading at the New York Stock Exchange by showering the floor with money. She also supported him for years while he hid from the police to avoid drug charges...
...genetic material, said Watson, was "sheer lunacy" that would entangle genetic research in legal issues and slow it to a crawl. When the battle was over, the NIH had withdrawn the patent proposal and Watson was no longer head of the genome project. Gone too were Venter and his wife and collaborator, Claire Fraser...