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...Monday the U.S. district attorney's office in Central Islip, N.Y., arrested Nicholas Cosmo, founder and owner of Agape World Inc. and Agape Merchant Advance LLC in Hauppauge, N.Y., charging him with a $370 million mail fraud. Agape claims it has been in the business of providing private bridge loans to commercial real estate companies and builders. The Feds don't seem to agree...
Federal agents executed search warrants at three Agape offices and froze both company and personal bank accounts, seizing $1.5 million. Cosmo's initial appearance in court is scheduled for late Tuesday in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Thomas Boyle at the U.S. courthouse in Central Islip...
...University of New Mexico addiction specialist William Miller and his colleagues presented findings from two controlled trials in which patients underwent drug treatment. Some of the patients received spiritual guidance as part of the treatment - learning such practices as prayer, meditation and service to others, all of which are central to 12-step programs. Others received secular psychotherapy. Because of the enduring popularity of AA and similar programs that involve a spiritual component, Miller and his team expected the patients in the spiritual group to do better than those in the secular group. They were wrong - at least...
...recent weeks Bao has repeatedly questioned the authoritarian nature of China's central government. He helped draft Charter 08, a lengthy pro-democracy manifesto that was made public Dec. 10 and was initially signed by 303 mainland writers, scholars and artists - a number that has since grown to several thousand. Then he released a series of essays through Radio Free Asia that questioned the accomplishments of the Party. In those essays, Bao argued that the Communist Party's motivations for reforming the economy in the early 1980s after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution were not entirely pure. "Even though...
...John Makumbe said Tsvangirai had been pressured to accept a "half-baked agreement" before discussing it with his party. He added that he thought the U.S., Britain and Europe would also reject the deal. "Our woes will continue," he said. "The country will continue to be in limbo." In central Harare, newspaper vendor Kingstone Bere accused South Africa and other mediators of siding with Mugabe, adding they were "not concerned about the welfare of Zimbabweans, but about the welfare of Mugabe...