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Also, we can't help noticing that nobody in The Talented Mr. Ripley ever discusses the exchange rate. At that time, European countries tended to overvalue their currency wildly in the official rate of exchange, so everyone exchanged money on a fluctuating black market. For a while, I worked in the TIME bureau in Paris, in a job only marginally more ennobling than the men's-room-attendant position Tom Ripley held down at the start of the movie, and the high points of everyone's week was the Friday-morning visit of a distinguished-looking money changer known...
...TREASURER: Walther Leisler Kiep's confession that money was placed in secret bank accounts led to the current scandal...
HIGHS AND LOWS Here's some news: PC prices are up, and you're not getting more for your money. Did somebody suspend Moore's law? Don't PC prices always go down? Gravity has been reversed, at least temporarily, in PC pricing. Supply constraints, increased demand and a chip shortage tied to last year's earthquakes in Taiwan have kept prices up. But don't run out to buy that PC to beat the next hike. With Y2K problems no longer a threat and production back on track, prices should head down in a few months...
...himself in a bind he couldn't escape, he got some real masters-of-the-universe help from former CIA and KGB insiders. After a Dec. 12 performance in Moscow, Copperfield had his seven trucks and all his equipment seized by the Russian promoters, who claimed he owed them money. The State Department was unable to help, and after three weeks without his trucks, a desperate Copperfield turned to IGI, a security agency populated with former CIA and FBI insiders. The ex-spooks reached out to the KGB vets they had spied on in the past. "In Russia, they...
...third grade he still stumbled over simple words. So his parents got him a private tutor, and that changed his life. He became a good student and later an exceptional corporate leader. When he sold Netscape, he pocketed $700 million. Last week he brought a big chunk of that money back to his home state...