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...Salon des Indépendants, which was open to anyone who paid a small fee. After the success of Surprised! he retired to paint full time, and got by giving drawing and music lessons. In 1907 he was persuaded by a musician friend to take part in a bank fraud; at his trial the following year, his paintings were produced as evidence of his childishness, his testimony provoked laughter, and he walked free. Among the unanticipated pleasures of this show is the selection of Rousseau's landscapes, which never won much appreciation. Yet these small, melancholy works are exquisite records...
...Black Thoughts The indictment of former media baron Conrad Black for criminal fraud [Nov. 28] was the latest chapter in a life filled with controversy. When Black published his autobiography 11 years ago, TIME assessed its author...
...Social Security Administration (SSA), the new rules are intended to “further enhance the integrity of SSA’s enumeration processes for assigning SSNs by reducing the proliferation of SSNs used for purposes that are not related to work and thereby decreasing the potential for SSN fraud and misuse.”Nevertheless, identity fraud problems related to SSN’s are not solved by limiting SSN’s assigned to international students. If the purpose of the new law is to decrease fraud and abuse of SSN’s, the SSA should limit...
...everything went smoothly. One of the major Sunni lists, the National Agreement Front, announced during the day that they had accurate information, including names and account numbers, about factions planning electoral fraud. And not everyone voted. Om Saad was one who refused to go to the polls. Her daughter is lying in a local hospital with grave wounds from a car bomb explosion in front of her house last month. Frustrated by the limited medical care and surrounded by seemingly senseless violence, she already feels abandoned and ignored by her government and doesn't think these elections will make...
...fire and running down the street, people get out of your way." CHARGED. JACOB ZUMA, 63, former Deputy President of South Africa; with rape; in Johannesburg. A one-time heir apparent to President Thabo Mbeki, Zuma was dismissed earlier this year after his financial adviser was found guilty of fraud and corruption; Zuma himself was charged with corruption soon after. The charismatic politician denies any wrongdoing and says he will fight the rape charges, brought by a 31-year-old aids activist. DIED. EDWARD MASRY, 73, cranky lawyer whose most famous case?a class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric...