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...critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
...phone rang at 3 A.M. the other day. As calls at that hour go, it wasn't so terrible. No one I know had been rushed to the hospital. This was an emergency of another sort: my credit was under attack, and I needed to act fast...
Someone had tried to wire $400 from my MasterCard to an account in Bosnia. The transaction raised red flags at Western Union, which refused the transfer. Still, I was advised to shut down my credit card immediately. I called my bank, which had already taken that step--though not before nearly $2,000 in fraudulent charges had been put through in the hours since I had gone...
Identity theft hits all age groups, but adults over 50 are especially vulnerable because they have established credit and larger limits. Beyond that, says Rod Griffin, manager of public education for Experian, one of the big three credit-reporting agencies, "they are more trusting and less familiar with electronic transactions...
CHECK YOUR CREDIT Credit-alert services provide false comfort, says Foley. They often miss telltale activity you could spot if you looked at your report. You are entitled to one free report a year from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. Get them one at a time, every four months. And you may just avoid any late-night calls from the bank...