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...Week. Similar to those other honors, it will go to the person who, for better or worse, has created the biggest splash during the previous seven days?whether it's by doing good, making headlines or just keeping us all entertained. Our initial winner is a baddy, Abraham Abdallah, the audacious busboy in New York City who allegedly managed to accumulate phony credit cards of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and countless other rich folks to pull off one of the simplest, yet most outrageous, frauds ever. The front of our book is now also filled with lively, amusing...
Person of the Week A LIBRARY CARD OPENS WORLDS From the Brooklyn Public Library, audacious busboy Abraham Abdallah cybertapped into bank and brokerage accounts of Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas and others, stealing untold amounts. Police said Abdallah accumulated 20,000 fake credit cards...
State Sen. Burt Cohen, a Democrat, initiated the campaign for the plaque to honor New Hampshire men who volunteered to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War over 60 years ago. In 1937, sponsored by the Communist Party, a dozen residents of New Hampshire joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They crossed the Pyrenees by foot, sacrificing food, limbs, and sometimes their lives so the Spanish Republic might survive Franco's military coup. England, France and the United States refused to aid the legitimate democratic republic, while Germany and Italy generously donated modern guns, tanks and bombs to the fascist side...
...truth about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and its record in Spain has been intentionally distorted in this country for six decades. True, they were leftists, many of them members of the Communist Party who participated in organizing unions during the Depression years. True, they violated the U.S. policy of neutrality to fight in Spain. True, the Communist party paid for their fare to Spain, organized them into a military unit and provided them with uniforms and guns dating from the First World War, which stood no chance against the modern German artillery...
...Antinori, Ben Abraham and Zavos are modern-day rebels, even in the sometimes eccentric field of cloning. Antinori is also part of a team that says it will create its first human clone in 2002. Zavos, quoted above, is a well-known fixture in the world of cloning research; he and Antinori have long advocated human cloning as "the logical next step" in reproductive science, insisting the practice will provide new hope for couples who have been unable to have children. Friday, Antinori was particularly voluble when asked to defend the pending project against ethical and scientific concerns...