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...breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman’ persona. Hanks begins the film with...
Jonathan P. Abel ’05 is a history concentrator and member of The Crimson’s editorial board. From his Old Quincy outpost he will hold court on child pornography, bank fraud and genocide, as well as other topics of unappreciated significance. His column will now appear on alternate Thursdays...
...charges for a third time - two previous convictions were overturned on appeal, and Ibrahim was released in December after a five-month prison stay (his third in two years). If convicted again of receiving illegal foreign funding and "tarnishing Egypt's image" by blowing the whistle on parliamentary election fraud and discrimination against minority Coptic Christians, he faces a sentence of up to seven years. Ibrahim says it's worth it, to dramatize the need for democratic reforms in Egypt. "I have resigned myself to paying the price," he says, "for what I have been fighting for." Ibrahim's ordeal...
Leahy and Grassley have sent the President several letters objecting to that interpretation. In one delivered last week, Leahy complained that the White House's position leaves potential whistle-blowers "to guess at whether or not they can be fired for reporting an allegation of corporate fraud to their Representatives or Senators in Congress...
...Authorities hailed it as Vietnam's biggest-ever tax-fraud bust?proof, they claim, that the country is serious about tackling fraud and corruption. But another factor has tongues wagging both in Vietnam's boardrooms and at its noodle-soup stands. Thieu and his older brother Nguyen Trong Thang were known not just for their wealth?their private company boasted estimated revenue of $60 million in 2002?but for who they are. Born in Vietnam but raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once...