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...Martin Cahill - a.k.a. the General - had the posthumous privilege of being portrayed by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey in the thinly fictionalized Ordinary Decent Criminal, released in 2000. (Two years earlier, Brendan Gleeson played the title role in The General.) The real-life Cahill was Ireland's most colorful crook. Fat and balding, he had a passion for pigeons, Harley-Davidson motorbikes and two Dublin sisters by whom he fathered nine children. Cahill's gang arrived in Russborough House one night in May 1986; they cut a small pane of glass out of a French window, and entered the house...
...MEANWHILE Lightyear's Ahead Galactic hero Buzz Lightyear took time off battling the evil Zorg to fight crime in Hereford, Britain. Police were looking for a thief who'd stolen a toy from Woolworth's, when an electronic voice crackled out: "Buzz Lightyear, permission to engage!" They found the crook hiding under a bridge...
...what attracts criminals to the software racket. A drug dealer pays about $47,000 for a kilo of cocaine, and can sell it on the street for about $94,000, a 100% profit. But for the same outlay of $47,000 - and a lot less risk - an enterprising crook can buy 1,500 pirated copies of Office 2000 Professional and resell them for a profit of 900%. The rise of cybercrime has prompted police organizations across Europe to set up new high-tech crime divisions. The Hague-based force that coordinates police investigations into organized crime, Europol, is setting...
...Social unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly...
...before it cratered--twice as big a haul as that of any other corporate insider. The committee's renewed interest may quiet suspicions that Anschutz's Republican ties--he is a major G.O.P. donor--have shielded him until now. Says committee spokesman Ken Johnson: "If you're a corporate crook, Democrat or Republican, we're going to kneecap you in public." Anschutz's lawyers declined comment. --By Michael Weisskopf