The revelations include: Twelve of 17 companies named by Italian prosecutors as being connected to a middleman in an alleged bribery scheme surrounding an Algerian oil and gas deal appear in the files, including one company described as a "crossroads of illicit financial flows".
Anthropologists who studied Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion of 1979 described a complex country at the crossroads of Persian, Indian and Central Asian civilizations where nomads, farmers and traders of disparate cultures jostled against one another.
"We have come to what I might describe as a crossroads, and these events are going to determine the future and fate of our communion".
Masri was born in the Mediterranean coastal city of Latakia, where she grew up in what she describes as a crossroads between Arab roots "and nurturing ourselves with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen".
Others have described American Crossroads as a coup of the RNC.
TripAdvisor describes it thusly: "A crossroads for historians, sportsmen, architects, artists and gourmands, Colorado Springs offers a delightful mix of Western charms.
A June 2005 presentation by Mr. Mudd described the crossroads faced by the company, which at the time was focused on prime loans amid an expanding subprime market.
In an interview, he described Moldova as at a crossroads.
Its founders, Thomas Beard, who programmed the Williamsburg microcinema Ocularis, now defunct, and Ed Halter, a former director of the New York Underground Film Festival, described Light Industry as a crossroads destination.
This wasn't the answer I had expected, given my own experience of small-town South Carolina, which I found to be a fairly antagonistic place, more in line with the nuanced if blunt observations to be found in Ansari's act, when he describes the state as a crossroads between racism and good biscuits.
