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...untimely death, it seemed suspiciously well timed. Last September, while awaiting sentencing on a federal extortion conviction and just days before he was to be indicted on fraud charges, former New Jersey State Senator David Friedland was reported to have drowned in a scuba-diving accident near Grand Bahama Island. Last week the missing politico's attorney received a phone call with a taped message: "I am alive and in fear for my life," it began. Friedland hinted that he had evidence of other possible crimes, implying that he might cut a deal with authorities...
...spirits appear bearing privileged information. One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence. Maimas insists that he was nothing so wimpish as a guardian angel, a role he describes as "detestable theological fraud." He did not shelter his charge from evil but hounded him mercilessly: "My job was to make something of Francis with the materials I had at hand...
...which harsh justice actually has been meted out to Communist Party bigwigs, rather than to "common criminals." In a startling departure from this double standard, a Peking criminal court last week sentenced 23 government officials to as long as ten years in prison for crimes "involving bribery, fraud, illegal speculation and tax evasion." To make sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party...
...founding father, proclaimed an end last week to 8½ years of martial law. As legislators banged their desks in approval, Zia concluded his speech with the rallying cry "Long live the era of democracy!" Opposition politicians, expecting the move, had already labeled Zia's latest steps toward democracy a "fraud." Perhaps in anticipation of so skeptical a response, the wily soldier-politician sprang a surprise: he ended a 20-year state of emergency that had severely restricted personal freedoms. That liberalization carried one condition. "If anyone ever dares to derail the train of democracy for personal gain," Zia told...
...individual who wants account numbers. It is a honeypot for identity thieves." CHRIS HOOFNAGLE, senior consul for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., on a security breach at a credit-card payment-processing company in Arizona. More than 40 million accounts may have been exposed to fraud...