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Dele recovered from depression and a 1992 suicide attempt to play eight seasons with five teams, including a stint with Michael Jordan and the 1997 World Champion Chicago Bulls. But in 1999 he gave up the remaining $35 million on his contract, telling his agent he was going to do something "to make the world better." So it seemed as if he might have embarked on another existential adventure when he disappeared in waters near Papeete, Tahiti. Surely he was reading Sartre on some remote beach. But authorities inspecting his abandoned yacht last week found blood traces and gunpowder residue...
...will probably never be found," says prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat Hakuna Matata embarked in late May from Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Tahiti and Hawaii. Dele was joined onboard by his girlfriend Serena Karlan, 30, who was a former New York City real estate agent, and Bertrand Saldo, 32, a Frenchman and professional yacht captain. Dabord, a computer programmer from California, turned up uninvited. In emails to her parents and friends, Karlan "didn't sound all that excited about him being there," says her best friend, Stacey Steele...
...Dele's agent, Dwight Manley, wonders if the ballplayer's wealth had triggered fatal sibling jealousy: "Brian provided things for him. Maybe this was a simple case of financial motives." For now the answer lies with Dabord and in the waters of Tahiti...
...tossing around this word ‘link,’ but what does that mean?” said Belfer Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt, who signed the advertisement in the Times but not the online petition. “Does that mean one Iraqi intelligence agent might have talked to one member of al Qaeda, but we don’t know what he said...
...confirmed the prevailing theory that the abductees were used to teach Korean spies how to impersonate Japanese citizens. One victim, Yaeko Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...