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...commissioners also heard from Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, 52, a former Harlem gangster convicted of heroin dealing. Wearing a hood to hide features that have been altered by plastic surgery, Barnes said he had controlled drug sales of some $200,000 a day in Harlem, but insisted that he had done so without violence...
...rise of Michael Jackson into the ranks of the masculine ideal has set back sex more than 40 years. Jackson and Boy George style themselves on a prepubescent standard of asexuality: George's clothes are designed to hide his pudgy, awkward body, and it is difficult to imagine Jackson possessing any genitals at all. Jackson and the Bov (impossible that the could become Man) George have warmed their way into widespread public acceptance because they are so innocuous. Something similar was at work with the early Beatles; they would never had won America's hearts had they not looked like...
...gaining adherents, though swarms of lobbyists for just about everything from corporations to charities are still determined to kill or alter it. The special interests love the brier patch of the current tax code, which takes up 33 feet of shelf space and has enough shadowy havens to hide almost anything. "It was easier to get tax legislation than take other action," says Chapoton. Before long, the U.S. tax system was setting industrial policy. "Investments were being based on tax considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real estate became of no concern. Tax benefits were being sold." Decisions in business, Egger...
Past peace-related activism sponsored by the City has included the publication of a 1981 booklet. Cambridge and Nuclear Weapons: Where Can We Hide? and the adoption of Ordinance No. 987 establishing the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Disarmament...
...back, some underlings mockingly call her Nana. When traveling, she has members of the entourage paged at restaurants to ask trivial questions, and phones them at home with petty requests. Even Deaver is cowed by the First Lady: last year, having incompletely quit smoking, he felt obliged to hide his cigarettes from her. A West Wing official who gets along well with her admits that she is sometimes charmless with her subordinates. "She is a demanding person in that she knows what she wants, she wants the best and she wants it right now," says the presidential aide. "If there...