Word: secrets
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...floor. Gerald Ford (who we would later learn had just suffered a stroke) is about to take his seat. Secret Service agents and red-shirted First Union Center security guards are blocking my way. I use to like the Secret Service, but now I am annoyed...
...even more annoyed by Philadelphia's finest, who are dressed in their finest, who have lapel pins and plastic ear coils and who don't hold a candle to the Secret Service when it comes to politeness, tact and physical fitness. But I love the cops. I mean, they stood their ground this week when zany and stupid protestors tried to provoke them...
...admit I was suckered. At first I thought the "X" oversight was just a coincidence. Nobody could be so careless with this multimillion-dollar secret, least of all CBS, a network so paranoid about security it required reporters visiting Pulau Tiga to sign a scary nondisclosure agreement, which TIME and others refused to do. Why tell the web guys months ahead of time, for God's sake...
Ping's not-so-secret bank was also used to enlarge the smuggling operation, according to the police. Kwong says it enabled the snakeheads to lend money in China to those who couldn't afford the down payment on the trip or who didn't have relatives already in the U.S. to sponsor them. "They charged 30% annual interest, enough to keep someone working to pay it off over a very long time," Kwong says. It also enabled Ping and others to transfer the payments for the smuggling fee immediately after they were made, opening up a whole new pool...
...many times can you spell it before the car gets to the other side of the bridge [THE PULSE OF AMERICA, July 10]? Oh, the memories for those of us lucky enough to grow up near her banks! My own Tom and Huck built their secret fort near a bend in the "mighty Miss," and I could only feign mild consternation when stories of stashed cigars and stolen Playboys were finally confessed. I wish all kids could experience a bit of "life on the Mississippi." If nothing else, they would learn to spell. BERTEIL MAHONEY Laguna Niguel, Calif...