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| 27f600a | Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made. | Richard A. Posner | ||
| 0b3aab7 | Italian reporters uncovered evidence that the Vatican had invested in Istituto Farmacologico Serono, a pharmaceutical company that made birth control pills, as well as Udine, a military weapons manufacturer (there were also unconfirmed newspaper reports of church money in gunmaker Beretta, a Monte Carlo casino, and a printing firm that published pornographic magazines). | Gerald Posner | ||
| 8f09005 | Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103 | Gerald Posner | ||
| 68ccc82 | I can tell you that I have taken all the names I have found in the newspapers and looked them up myself. I didn't find a single one of these names. This Mafia boss, this politician, Osama bin Laden. None of them have accounts here, nor are they delegates to accounts. | Gerald Posner | ||
| a459bef | The result was a remarkable December 30 decree that gave the Vatican its first ever anti-money laundering law, set to go into effect the following April 1.27 "The Prevention and Countering of Illegal Activities in the Area of Monetary and Financial Dealings" was issued as a motu proprio, a document historically signed personally by the Pope. Benedict took full responsibility for the decision." | Gerald Posner | ||
| b9d379b | Ratzinger was afraid to intervene on a deadlocked Roman Curia, with reformers on one side, and the money changers on the other," wrote author Gianluigi Nuzzi. "So he decided to create a clean slate by bowing out and paving the way for the election of a strong Pope."34" | Gerald Posner | ||
| 2b5c18e | In exchange for some wide-ranging modifications demanded by the socialist government to the church's 1929 concordat, Italy agreed to underwrite the remainder of the $406 million settlement.53 The changes to the concordat would have once been unthinkable. The church dropped its insistence that Roman Catholicism be the state religion. Moving forward, the state had to confirm church-annulled marriages. Parents were given the right to opt their.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| c8a419d | Thirty-four companies--many of them still household names today, like Krupp, AEG Telefunken, Siemens, Bayer, and IG Farben--made fortunes from the tortured labor of Jews, Russians, Poles, some Allied prisoners of war, and German prisoners of conscience. | Gerald Posner | ||
| a553930 | Gianluigi Nuzzi, the author of the 2009 book that precipitated the string of events from Caloia's exit to the motu proprio, expressed the feelings of many Vaticanologists: "A few years ago, an anti-money-laundering law in the Vatican and the Holy See would have been unthinkable. They used to say, 'We're a sovereign state; these are our affairs.' The important thing is that they created an anti-money-laundering law and an authority to enforc.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 510368e | Castillo Lara believed it might not be possible to demolish the parallel IOR without making the Vatican Bank crash in on itself. At every turn, he adeptly blocked Caloia's efforts to make the bank more transparent.66 Some reformers meanwhile suspected that the cardinal was more than just an obstacle to reform. They thought the powerful APSA boss was the source of press leaks that made it appear that it was Caloia's team that had failed to r.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| b2d3b40 | Late that autumn a Venezuelan attorney, Alberto Jaime Berti, cooperated with Italian magistrates in return for immunity from prosecution on charges that the IOR was at the center of laundering several hundred million dollars through Swiss and Panamanian banks on behalf of a handful of senior Opus Dei officials.72 The Italian media reported that Berti fingered De Bonis as his Vatican Bank connection and produced dozens of documents with the .. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 08b5e60 | It took the OSS nearly two years after the IOR's formation before it stumbled across intelligence that Hitler's Reichsbank was transferring money to the Vatican and disguising its origin by using a Swiss bank as an intermediary.62 | Gerald Posner | ||
| d160fbb | In World War II, Pius XII's silence helped protect a complex web of interlocking business interests with the Third Reich, relationships that yielded significant profits for the Vatican. In some cases they are dealings the Church has denied to this day. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 893ce5a | As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government under Putin was enabled by the weakness of the middle classes and public institutions in post-Soviet Russia. Subjected | Orlando Figes | ||
| a400e6d | Case Closed, de Gerald Posner; Legend, de Edward Jay Epstein (una chifladura a lo Robert Ludlum, pero divertida); Oswald: un misterio americano, de Norman Mailer; y Mrs. Paine's Garage, de Thomas Mallon. El ultimo ofrece un brillante analisis de los teoricos de la conspiracion y su necesidad de encontrar | Stephen King | ||
| 1f20e5d | Play, don't pray" was the mantra for some, who according to the insiders included dinner parties of clerics and male prostitutes that ended in nights of drugs and sex." | Gerald Posner | ||
| 94c8c21 | common | Gerald Posner | ||
| fb8cad1 | A Catholic family had hidden a Jewish boy from the Nazis, and had learned that the Germans had murdered the child's parents. They brought the youngster to Wojtyla and asked him to baptize the child. In contrast to Pope Pius IX and his abductions and forced baptisms of two Jewish boys, Wojtyla refused. The boy should be raised Jewish in the tradition of his parents, Wojtyla told the parents. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 5e4d721 | Dick Clark was pleased with the group's success, but he was also happy to be rid of them. They had kept many of the other acts awake by practicing late at night on the bus, and Diane Ross had too many fights with other artists. Once, Ross had a spat with Brenda Holloway, who she thought had taken her can of hair spray. Another fight was with the Crystals' Delores Brooks, whom Diane accused of stealing a pair of her shoes. Their shouting got.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 2dace25 | The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had authorized the study.92 It concluded that 95 percent of American dioceses had at least one complaint of a sexual assault by a priest against a minor (the authors did not count incidents before 1950).93 During the five-plus decades, 4,392 priests had been accused of abusing 10,667 children, a figure that in some years was as high as 10 percent of all priests.94 At least 143 were serial molesters wh.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| 773f304 | In 2009, Benedict faced a firestorm after he lifted the excommunication of Richard Williamson, a British bishop based in Buenos Aires.61 Bertone, who oversaw Williamson's vetting, had apparently not even Googled him. If he had, he would have discovered an interview the bishop gave only three days before to Swedish television, in which he said about the Holocaust: "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against six million Jews hav.. | Gerald Posner | ||
| eea8865 | This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution - one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power are illuminated on the surface of events and the broader course of history becomes clear. | Orlando Figes | ||
| e5edf08 | For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as 'Soviet', the 1990s were little short of a catastrophe. They lost everything: a familiar way of life; an economic system that guaranteed security; an ideology that gave them moral certainties, perhaps even hope; a huge empire with superpower status and an identity that covered over ethnic divisions; and national pride in Soviet achievem.. | Orlando Figes | ||
| 831a801 | According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age, wanted the return of a 'leader like Stalin'. | Orlando Figes | ||
| d335e47 | is generally supposed that Conservatives are old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen. Thus it was with Eugene. Having settled in the village, his aim and ideal was to restore the form o.. | Orlando Figes | ||
| ebef217 | Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet | Tony Horwitz | ||
| 047479f | Amari did as he was told. At | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 942e512 | You know who I am, what is inside me. If distance separated us, you would still need to feel my hands on you, my mouth on yours, my body in yours, a part of yours. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5fe9a6d | Mikhail, are you asking me to marry you?" "I am not really certain I know how it is done. Should I be on my knee?" He was grinning openly at her. "You're proposing to me with a carload of assassins approaching?" "Potential assassins." He gave her a small, heart-wrenching smile. "Say yes. You know you cannot possibly resist me. Say yes." | Christine Feehan | ||
| f34ccec | I don't want you to go, Lexi. I want you to choose me. Stay with me. I know I'm not much of a prize. I know my faults. I need a commitment from you. I need that, Lexi. Not marriage if you don't want it. If you give me your word, that will be enough. We're always going to have these moments of doubts, but if we both make that commitment, we'll always know the other will stand with us through them. I need to know you'll stand with me. I've go.. | sweet-romance | Christine Feehan | |
| 3e7e555 | I have lived centuries and endured vampire hunts, wars, and betrayals. Until you came into my life, I have never lost control. I never had anything I wanted so much. I never had anything to lose." She pulled his head down to her and pressed little healing kisses to his throat, to his strong jaw, to the hard corners of his mouth. "You are a good man, Mikhail." She grinned impishly, her blue eyes teasing. "You just have too much power for you.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 0d33d37 | The wind blew off the sea as three Harleys made their way through the last series of snaking turns and hit the straight stretch on Hwy 1 running parallel to the ocean" "they taught us two things Reaper, how to have sex every way possible way and how to kill every way possible. They left out relationships. They left out Love." " he kissed her with everything he was. Man,beast,killer,biker. Hers, every single cell in his body belonged to her... | Christine Feehan | ||
| e293eb2 | Why do men always resort to calling women bitches when we kick their asses? | Christine Feehan | ||
| 9d3f50d | If only the three of you could see yourselves. It's very sweet of you to treat me like I'm a fragile porcelain doll, especially when I feel a bit like one, but Mikhail is in me, as I am in him. I feel what he feels and know his thoughts, although he tries to keep them from me." She leaned over to kiss his blue-shadowed jaw. "I love you for trying to protect me, but I'm not weak. I simply have to come to terms with the human bonds my mind pu.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| fc45212 | Raven hated arguing with him, but some things had to be said. "You told me you were just going out, nothing dangerous. It wasn't necessary to lie to me about what you were doing. I know you're the big hotshot around here, but this is what I do. I track killers. We were supposed to be partners, Mikhail. I could have helped you." Byron, Eric, and Jacques exchanged raised eyebrows. Byron mouthed the word hotshot. No one dared smile, not even J.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| a995cb6 | He kissed her gently, tenderly, opening his mind as much as he dared, wanting to share himself with her. His love was wild, obsessive, protective, certainly not given easily, but given completely to her. | Christine Feehan | ||
| f88d4b9 | I've been so alone, apart from life, not really knowing why i was so empty. You've filled all those empty places, cara mia. I sleep with you in my arms and have no nightmares. I open my eyes and look forward to each hour, to hear your laughter, to watch you move through my home. Your smile takes my breath away. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2035ca8 | You freakin' hussy. You're going into heat aren't you? Oh my God I'm saving us both. We'll go back to the swamp. Even if he tries to track you, no one is as good as we are there. I just have to hide you until it's over. You should have told me Don't tell me you didn't know, Bebe, because that's why you rose and accepted his claim. You were feeling all amorous and you were willin' to throw me to that wolf just for sex" --Christine Feehan" .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 195410e | Joshua nodded with a small smile. "I know if you're with her, nothing bad can happen to her. I'll go to school with Marie and Stefan. Of course, if you took me, all the other kids would think I have a big daddy, and they wouldn't try to pick on me." He shrugged. "But Stefan's big. Maybe he'll work." | Christine Feehan | ||
| a6642e1 | No." Ilya lifted his mouth from hers, his fingers reluctantly releasing her. "Not like this. When you give yourself to me, it's all the way and forever. This is too easy." Joley flung her head back, glaring at him. "You're saying no to me?" "We're not doing this, not like this. You want to get off, you can come home with me and get into my bed where you belong." | joley | Christine Feehan | |
| db0ffe1 | Ilya hit the back of his head against the wall as if he could jolt her out of his mind. But she was already wrapped inside him and he was never going to be free of her. He knew that now, knew that no matter how disciplined he'd always been, his control went out the window whenever he laid eyes on Joley. And discipline wasn't going to save either of them this time. He couldn't take his eyes off of her as she moved across the stage. Her voice.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| a8ce9a6 | When you're up on that stage and you're working the audience, all I can think about is slamming you against the wall and burying myself in you over and over, so deep they'll never get us apart. | Christine Feehan | ||
| de34dc2 | The man's posture said it all. God help the person dumb enough to ever lay a finger on Savannah Dubrinsky. Johnson had been worried about some San Francisco nutcase trying to get to the famous magician while she was in town, but now that he had met her husband, he figured anyone trying to touch her would have to be suicidal. He | Christine Feehan | ||
| d78151a | The door is in front of you," he said. She turned her head slightly so that she could keep an eye on him even as she observed the basement door. "Any tricks up your sleeve? A secret password?" "Turning the knob will do it." "How very mundane." Alexandria reached for the door-knob at the same time he did. His arm curved around her, bringing their bodies close so that she smelled his clean, masculine scent and felt the heat of him right throu.. | Christine Feehan |