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...hypocrisy in the West's condemnation of B.C.C.I. bookkeeping. They point out that British banks routinely did business with prominent Arabs without documentation after British lenders flocked to the Middle East in the 1950s and '60s. The region's experts also see little wrong in using front men to hide the real movers and shakers behind financial transactions. That could help explain why Middle Eastern investors allowed B.C.C.I. to use them as nominal owners -- or nominees -- when the bank secretly acquired control of Washington's First American Bankshares. Royal family members often use fronts to conceal the fact that they...
...Robert and Carol Bly "went to hide out at the farm" on the edge of the Lutefisk Capital of the World. Lutefisk is a Norwegian dried fish, an item of sentimental immigrant nostalgia and distinctly an acquired taste. Madison has a large metal sculpture of the lutefisk beside the main road into town. (Another artistic item in town: a wooden sculpture with a sign that says INDIAN DONE BY LOCAL CHAIN-SAW ARTIST...
...courts are only one of the crybaby's many avenues of complaint; there is the street, the pulpit, the press. Public officials, writers, children in school -- all nowadays hide behind euphemisms that are often silly, not to say condescending, lest they be castigated by the crybaby for even the most inadvertent slip or imagined insult to this race or that ethnic group. They are fleeing, in other words, before the crybaby's greatest talent: the ability to hand out guilt, frequently entangled in the sacred American discourse on rights. If drunk drivers get into trouble, they have the right...
...destructive -- attitudes. On July 13, Kenyans received such a shock, when 271 teenage girls were attacked during a rampage by dozens of their male classmates at St. Kizito, a boarding school in central Kenya. Chased into a corner of the dormitory where they were trying to hide, 19 girls died of suffocation in the crush. Doctors say another 71 were raped. Last week 29 boys ages 14 to 18 were charged with manslaughter; two were also charged with rape...
...part of a deliberate strategy. Says Blum: "There's no question in my mind that it's a calculated effort inside the Federal Government to limit the investigation. The only issue is whether it's a result of high-level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities...