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...your credit-card information was stolen recently, there's a decent chance it fell into the hands of Albert Gonzalez. The infamous computer hacker was indicted along with two unnamed co-conspirators in a New Jersey court on Aug. 17 for the alleged theft of some 130 million card numbers. The crime is believed to be the largest retail-store theft in U.S. history. Although little is known about Gonzalez's personal life, he has a long history of hacking and has been known to operate on both sides of the law. (Read "A Brief History of Cybercrime...
...expensive suit, you could still see in him the discerning old wise man, reluctantly agreeing to take one more person's money," Kirtzman writes. Readers of these three accounts will fare better than those Madoff swindled. The books are $25 each, but you at least get a decent return for the investment...
Which goes to show that for all the glimmers of hope in housing, there is still a long slog ahead. Because fundamentally, what a rational housing market means is that people can afford the homes they have and move to bigger ones only once they have decent and growing paychecks...
...what to do about Andrew J. Hall, head of the moneymaking Phibro energy-trading unit of money-hemorrhaging Citigroup, whose performance-based contract could net him about $100 million this year. One can extrapolate from Feinberg's past performance, though, that the veteran mediator will come up with a decent compromise - that is, one that leaves everyone unhappy...
...While Osnabrück boasts a significant Turkish population like many German cities, it isn't exactly what I'd call a diverse place. I've spent nearly two months here in the past year and have seen exactly three Asian people, all of whom worked in the single decent Chinese restaurant in town (a strangely upscale establishment compared to the ones I'm used to frequenting in America). So when I chose Chinese as the theme of the menu, I knew I was putting myself at a distinct disadvantage...