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...elected by a huge margin, gaining 83% of the vote. Bouteflika campaigned on his record of taming the country's 12-year-long Islamic insurgency. His main rival, former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, came second with just 8%. Benflis said the poll was a sham marred by fraud...
...scene had all the hallmarks of a populist uprising. Some 6,000 infuriated owners of Eurotunnel stock converged last week in a massive, hangar-like convention hall near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport to topple the company's embattled, button-down board. Led by a fiery businessman with multiple fraud convictions and a chairman designate who likes to travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built...
...down under pressure) of travel group Nouvelles Frontières. Maillot was appointed after he joined forces with stock tip-sheet publisher Nicolas Miguet to rally discontented shareholders and replace Shirrefs and his board. Miguet, who has had several run-ins with the law (including a 1999 conviction for fraud and forgery after he advised clients to invest in a firm heading into bankruptcy) was the principal organizer of the overthrow. He owns 7 million shares of the company's stock but has taken no official role on the board. He has backed Maillot's plan to renegotiate with creditors...
...passwords and other information. Be suspicious of requests to provide information a second time and queries from anyone you haven't spoken to before. Call the company to confirm that the e-mail is legit. If you get phished, call your bank and credit-card companies, and report the fraud at www.ftc.gov and reportphishing@antiphishing.org --By Barbara Kiviat
...offers criticism instead of answers to real problems. That has been his politically successful modus operandi since Vietnam. The battle for the White House will be long and hard fought. Kerry will need to come up with some specific answers, or Americans will soon see he is a political fraud. HAY HASSANI Beaver, Okla...