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...waning days of communism. Named after a popular children's game, Pupendo has two protagonists. Bedrich Mára, a well-known Czech sculptor expelled from the Prague art academy for political reasons, is a staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership yet justifies it: "Not all communists are the same. Somebody joins them in order to soften [the system] from within. Somebody has to sacrifice himself." After years of estrangement...
...million Worth in 2000 of the Fastows, charged by the Justice Department with 115 counts, including conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion...
...website praises the works of French author Thierry Meyssan, whose works include Those who Challenged Israel, The Role of Jews in Distorting Arab Images in the Western Culture and The Appalling Fraud, a book that alleges that the U.S. staged the September 11, 2001 attacks...
...moviegoers take unsolicited commercials sitting down. Miriam Fisch, 37, of Evanston, Ill., sued Loews Cineplex Entertainment because the film she had paid to see started four minutes late as a result of ads. The high school teacher says the theater committed fraud by posting the film's start time while knowing it would not be accurate. Although it would have made a tidy story to say Fisch had gone to see The Hours, she was in fact at the theater to see The Quiet American. --Reported by Dody Tsiantar/New York
...allies ranging from Britain to Saudi Arabia and Jordan, don't share the Pentagon's enthusiasm for Chalabi. They question whether a man who has spent the past 45 years in exile from Iraq has any standing among Iraqis, and point to his conviction for bank fraud in Jordan a decade ago to question the appropriateness of backing him. The Pentagon may have hoped to seal the debate by flying in Chalabi and some 700 of his U.S.-trained militiamen in the last week of the war, but the "facts on the ground" they have created have been, at best...