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...trouble started on Aug. 4 when Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson's luggage inadvertently went through standard scanning procedures, instead of being exempt from such an examination because he was a VIP returning from Caracas on a flight chartered by Argentina's state oil company. As a result of the scan, customs officials at Buenos Aires' Newberry airport found a bag stuffed with $790,550 in unmarked $50 bills. The other passengers on the plane were seven Argentine and Venezuelan oil officials who had been in Caracas negotiating the bond and gas plant deals...
...immediately pounced on the incident as proof that Chavez was buying the support of the Kirchner government. "This is the proof of the corruption of this government," said Elisa Carrio, the main opposition candidate in the presidential campaign. The unseemliness of the airport discovery was not mitigated by Antonini Wilson's immediate flight from Argentina, apparently for Key Biscayne, Florida, where he maintains an apartment. A warrant has now been issued for his arrest by an Argentine court...
...been relegated to the rankings' equivalent of Siberia, the school decided it would not only stop participating in the U.S. News reputational survey, but would no longer provide any data whatsoever to the magazine. "Sarah Lawrence is taking a stand," says the school's communications director Todd Wilson. "A lot of people who are close to the college might ultimately view this as a point of pride." Then again, a lot of people may not even notice...
...Wilson has little to refer to in the way of precedent: There are only a handful of former Crimson players in the minor league system and the last Harvard product to reach the major leagues was Jeff Musselman ’85. If Wilson wants to make it out of the Pioneer League, he will have to become somewhat of a pioneer himself and create his own identity...
...Hopefully I’m able to push through it and do it,” Wilson said. “Maybe only in dreams, but right now it’s a dream just to be playing...