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...used to purchase and trade Russian government bonds, including bonds known as “GKOs”, in a scheme to avoid paying Russian taxes on foreigners making such trades,” the U.S. said in a press release. “The United States alleges that FFIA thereby improperly diverted USAID-funded resources for its own purposes and profit...
...Despite the plentiful rain, the local authority says it doesn't have the money to build water traps to stop the deluge from washing into Bangladesh. A rain-harvesting scheme died after residents complained that maintaining the water tanks was too expensive. But the larger truth in a country where droughts and floods are annual events is that only catastrophe prompts action. That may come to Cherrapunji one day, as it did to others this year. But for right now, it never rains in Cherrapunji. And then it pours...
...titles like "We Have Some Planes" and "Heroism and Horror." Osama bin Laden is portrayed as a micromanager who wanted to hit the White House and personally chose all of the "muscle" hijackers. There are telling details about the lives and passions of the hijackers. For example, the 9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew...
...current scheme, Hatch said, is the disenfranchisement of blacks as a way for some to cement political power...
...hipster draw by housing the 2002 MTV's Real World inside a suite in the hotel, a risky move the rest of Vegas thought was suicide (having cameras inside a hotel was believed to be like asking the gaming commission to shut you down). But the Real World scheme worked better than expected. It made the hotel and its steak house, nightclubs and tattoo parlor the hottest spots for the barely legal. It is Britney Spears' home away from home whenever she's in town to get married. "I have friends of friends who are 17 years old, and they...