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...happen to me. This fight for reform is lawful, but it has its price." In addition to the outpouring of public support, Ganji is encouraged by the steady flow of leaks he receives about death squads: he declines to identify his sources but likens them to the insiders who fed Woodward and Bernstein...
CHARGED. MARIANO FAGET, 54, Cuban-born U.S. immigration officer; with spying for Havana; in Miami. U.S. officials fed Faget false information about a Cuban's plan to defect to America and arrested him after he passed the "intelligence" to a Cuban-born businessman in New York. Washington later expelled a Cuban diplomat with ties to Faget...
Cohen founded Beenz.com because he was fed up with existing customer-incentive programs. "I had reward cards and loyalty-card and bank schemes, miles for this, miles for that, thousands and thousands of points, but I had no idea what they were worth. They sent me catalogs, and I didn't want anything in them. It was annoying." He saw an opportunity to give consumers more of a choice in how companies rewarded them for purchases, and to grease the wheels of the burgeoning Internet economy, all in one swoop. Beenz.com launched in March 1999, and by August 150 companies...
...professional wrestler. JESSE VENTURA was done with the party's atomization into factions and fiefs, the carping from Dallas, its creeping Buchananism. When JOHN ANDERSON, who ran for President as an independent in 1980, visited Ventura in Minnesota a few months back, he could tell the Governor was getting fed up. "He was tired of the dramatis personae," recalls Anderson, who briefly flirted with the idea of seeking the Reform Party nod. Last week Ventura discussed his decision to hang it up in a phone call with state chairman and ally RICK MCCLUHAN. "You write for a family magazine...
...growing at a faster pace than the economy can supply," says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "That's the formula for inflation." This rampant demand, notes Baumohl, is based largely on the success of the stock market, in which an unprecedented percentage of Americans now have a stake. "The Fed sees the stock market leading consumers to act in a way that may not be rational," he says. "Consumers check their portfolios and see gains, and spend money based on those gains before cashing in their stocks." That's the inflation side of the picture; there's also danger...