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...herself and acting as guide to small groups, using Mexico, Belize and other Central American states as staging points. Police say she did it by buying off corrupt immigration, tourist and other officials, using fake or purchased papers and then transshipping immigrants to America. She charged a small down payment, and hopefuls promised to borrow the rest of the money upon arrival from families already in the U.S. Those who couldn't pay were found jobs at restaurants and garment factories and allowed to pay off the debt, with interest, in installments. In the 1980s, according to police...
...Michael Dukakis came calling but discovered Graham had played an adulterous husband in a Jimmy Buffett video called Who's the Blonde Stranger? Graham confessed that he had perhaps shown poor judgment. But that wasn't the problem. "They were concerned I hadn't listed any payment on my financial-disclosure form," Graham says. "But Jimmy never paid me a dime...
...tastefully decline, choosing not to contribute to a culture in which everything is for sale and ads are scrawled on every inch of space that isn't part of someone's forehead. But what if they paid you enough to wipe out your car payment? Or if the ad were for something cool, like a dotcom? You're a red-blooded American. For the right price, of course you'd sell out. So in case you were wondering, the line forms at Autowraps.com and 23,000 people got there ahead...
...lives with it." A State Department spokesman says that Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has talked of her frustration. In his 1998 trip to Africa, President Clinton apologized to Rwanda. The report recommends wiping out Rwanda's debt to the IMF and World Bank. However, in urging payment from countries that let the genocide happen, the report overreaches, citing as precedent a case involving more direct responsibility: German reparations after World...
...thanks to the tobacco interests in the Florida legislature, it's now illegal to bankrupt a company via punitive damages. And at this rate, that's exactly what this kind of settlement would do; big tobacco is mortgaged to the hilt, and the companies are already chained to a payment plan for the historic (and bank-breaking) agreement with various states' attorneys general...