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August 6, 2010

Best Article Business World

The Billion-Dollar Shack

A reporter heads to Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific, to track down the hub of a worldwide money-laundering operation—a shack filled with computers, air-conditioners, and little else.

Jack Hitt New York Times Magazine Dec 2000 20min Permalink