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A consequence, however, was that the tax code turned many extraordinarily wealthy families, intent upon preserving their fortunes, into major forces in America’s civic sector. In order to shelter themselves from taxes, they were required to invent a public philanthropic role. In the instance of both the Kochs and the Scaifes, the tax law ended up

inert.

The German magazine Stern also sent a reporter (Ve haf vays of making you give an interview). Stern is responsible for the current drama involving the real-life ‘M’, whose son figured in a drug case. Stern decided to reveal M’s identity in defiance of a British government ‘D’ Notice, which forbade publication under the Official Secrets Act. English

The other dominant banana company in New Orleans was founded by two Sicilian immigrants, the Vaccaro brothers, in 1899. They began with the importation of bananas from Honduras. They flourished because they bought up the city’s ice factories in order to preserve the bananas. At the time, the company was known as Standard Fruit, and is now part of

It wasn’t accurate to say she lost weight—it was more like she chased the weight off her body the way a farmer would chase a stray dog off his property. And like a suspicious farmer, Fawn still patrols the borders of her body, a shotgun propped in the crook of her elbow, ready to shoot any fattening food that tries to sneak back in.