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...managed to get that money back, but he could not get out of his contract. Ok Cha Adams, a housewife in St. Louis, Mo., similarly agreed to turn over a third of nearly $17,000 in child-support arrears to the company. Then she learned from a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter that it was not Supportkids but the military that had garnished her ex-husband's wages. Supportkids counters that it deserved the money because of its efforts to secure payment. It adds that the overwhelming majority of its clients are satisfied customers, noting that fewer than 1% file "official...
...response to the misdeeds of corporate ceos [Nation, Aug. 12] reminds me of Claude Rains' famous line in Casablanca. As Captain Renault, Rains closes down Humphrey Bogart's casino and says, "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"--just as the crooked roulette dealer hands him his winnings. DOUG WEISKOPF Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Collins' life has been steeped in aggression. He was a battered teenager who saw his mother, a small-time dealer and full-time addict, murdered by drug runners when he was eight. After being sentenced to a maximum security prison in California for armed robbery in 1991, he found Islam. From there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime...
...entrepreneurial culture that he began calling himself an "American with a German passport." But his plan to transform the firm from an insular private company to a stock market star ended up vexing the family that owns it. Last week, Middelhoff was out. "He was a real wheeler-dealer at a time when we're in a back-to-basics market," said Nick Bell, media analyst at Bear Stearns in London. "I think he was pushing too fast. It's a very conservative group...
...fully understood that they don't always necessarily have my interests at heart," says Dan Brown, a Seattle software-company owner, "but to be out there to rob me, that bothers me." Even criminals look for honor among thieves--and find the greedheads wanting. Mike, 20, a former drug dealer in Seattle, says that not even pushers can lie so blatantly to their clients. "People have to be able to trust you, know that you're selling what you say you're selling," he says. "If I had lied like [the CEOs], I would have been out of business...