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...gullible Filipinos and others did, coughing up millions of real greenbacks to a group of Mindanao fraudsters now dubbed the Trillion Dollar Gang. The numbers could be higher: police say many victims are probably too embarrassed to come forward. They should be red-faced, having fallen for the crudest of cons. Using computers and rudimentary desktop printers, the gang ran off fake U.S. Federal Reserve notes in denominations from $100 million to $500 million. The total: $2.15 trillion, more than the annual American budget. The scam was blown by a joint U.S. Secret Service and Philippine police operation...
...already happening, albeit in the crudest of ways. Boot up a computer program called the Axe, for instance, and you can jam along with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous...
...settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark, a finance manager with an M.B.A., charges he was repeatedly passed over for a promotion. Despite successfully completing a long list of assignments, "I left Bell Atlantic in December...
...three power plants had been damaged, and several hundred Lebanese, most of them noncombatants, had been killed or wounded. Still, for the first seven days, Israelis applauded the offensive, and much of the world tolerated it. But even the vaunted Israeli military machine proved no better than its crudest cog. On the eighth day, when 155-mm howitzer shells crashed into a U.N. post and slaughtered more than 100 Lebanese refugees, wounding at least 100 others, it was a shattering reminder that there are no such things as truly smart weapons--or wars...
...History is important to Harvard. Even the crudest person would realize that it's not good for Harvard to be dumping on its history in this...