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  • Pick a dictator, almost any dictator - Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, the Philippines 'Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti's Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the Shah of Iran, Central African Republic Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa - and they all have this in common: they allegedly stashed their loot in secret, numbered accounts in Swiss banks, safely guarded by the so-called Gnomes of Zurich.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • His "Gnomes" book was one of the first books that got me really into drawing seriously as a kid, right alongside Dinotopia...

    New Poortvliet Museum James Gurney 2009

  • AP Consider the 1998 "Gnomes" episode -- possibly surpassing Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" as the classic defense of capitalism -- in which the children of South Park, Colo., get a lesson in how not to run an enterprise from mysterious little men who go about stealing undergarments from the unsuspecting and collecting them in a huge underground storehouse.

    Obama and the 'South Park' Gnomes 2009

  • South Park episode 30, "Gnomes": When Tweek's Coffee is being run out of business by "Harbuck's".

    It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008

  • You know the great "Gnomes" episode of "South Park" with the famous 3-part plan?

    Archive 2007-07-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Magical items for small beings such as Gnomes, Halflings, Goblins and many others!

    EN World D&D / RPG News Trollitc 2010

  • It also included some of Celia's own songs, including "Gnomes" and

    unknown title 2009

  • This ordering of his imagination developed into the Book of Lost Tales (not published in his lifetime, in which most of the major stories of the Silmarillion appear in their first form: tales of the Elves and the "Gnomes", (i. e.

    The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • "Like celebrity bloggers and Wikipedia "Gnomes," then, the Top Amazon Reviewer heralds the arrival of a curious hybrid: part customer, part employee.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • "Like celebrity bloggers and Wikipedia "Gnomes," then, the Top Amazon Reviewer heralds the arrival of a curious hybrid: part customer, part employee.

    Amazon reviews Ed Gorman 2008

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