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...Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, an al-Qaeda agent wanted for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, was found there flipping burgers at a fast-food joint. And German con man Jurgen Harksen, who had lived in the city since 1993, was extradited last year and convicted of fraud. "Perhaps they think we're at the end of the world," ventures a spokesman for Cape Town's mayor. "Little do they know. Our international links are strong." - By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne A Fragile Peace LIBERIA A peace deal signed by government and rebel groups in Liberia lasted just...
...detective responded to a report of identity fraud at Lamont Library...
More recent devotees are decisively noncrystal. Eileen Harrington, who runs the hard-boiled consumer-fraud group of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, invited a meditation speaker to give a presentation after 9/11. Roughly half her staff is still at it. Bill Ford, the head of Ford Motors, meditates, as does a former chief of England's top-secret MI-5. Hillary Clinton has talked about meditating, and the Gores are converts. "We both believe in regular prayer, and we often pray together. But meditation--as distinguished from prayer--I highly recommend it," says the man who nearly became...
...carmaker to 15%. Lawmakers then waved through a draft bill allowing the state's share in former monopoly France Télécom to drop below 50%. Update One of Turkey's wealthiest families, the Uzans - profiled in time last week - was found guilty of perpetrating a "huge fraud" against Motorola and Nokia. A New York federal judge found the Uzans had "siphoned" hundreds of millions of the two telecom firms' money "into their own pockets." They have been ordered to pay the companies more than $4.2 billion. The Uzans say they will appeal. TIME Europe: Uzan's Troubles...
...concerned that MCI would emerge from bankruptcy with relatively light penalties and the lowest debt load in the business. (Last May, MCI reached a $750 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest in the agency?s history but a fraction of the amount investors lost to fraud.) The competitors were recently helped by a whistleblower who went to Verizon and told executives there that MCI had been creatively rerouting calls to avoid paying high access fees to local carriers. In some cases, it meant the fees were dumped on other carriers, like AT&T, it was alleged...