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Sure, experts say, he'll cough up the obvious brokerage accounts, client names, and offshore and numbered accounts that dealt directly with his investment company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. And he'll begrudgingly concede the $7 million Park Avenue pad, the Palm Beach digs, the yachts, the French villa and the Montauk getaway. But no one believes he'll tell authorities where all the booty is stashed - not a chance, unless it saves him from walking the plank. It's the equivalent of the British government asking the infamous pirate Captain Kidd if he wouldn't mind handing...
...both Hamas and Israel to stage a daily cease-fire is both a measure of just how serious the humanitarian crisis has become and a small reason for hope that an enduring truce may be possible soon. The agreement coincided with a peace initiative announced on Tuesday night by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, which included what could be a significant concession by the Egyptian leader...
...offensive: rendering Hamas incapable of firing missiles into Israel, through either military defeat or an effective arms embargo. And while Israel hasn't officially accepted the Sarkozy-Mubarak plan, its response to the proposal contrasts with its earlier vows to fight on. "Israel welcomes the initiative of the French President and the Egyptian President to bring about a sustainable quiet in the south," said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev on Wednesday afternoon. "In principle, we have fundamental agreement. Our commitment is to make that framework, and make it succeed...
...Later the practice became an ambush tactic to draw law and fire authorities to the scene - where they'd then be attacked by gangs. Now the act works as a manner of daily protest against alienation, discrimination and the indifference of more affluent French society...
...another, less specifically-French, factor may also be behind the spike in car-burning rates. According to the National Observatory on Delinquency, as many as 20% of cars burned each year are suspected insurance fraud. If that trend, too, is on the rise, then New Year's Eve 2009 may be a veritable bonfire in France, as recession-bled car owners see the country's annual arson event as a chance to make some extra money...