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...prison, every birthday is precious. NELSON MANDELA of South Africa made his 80th even more so by marrying his sweetheart, GRACA MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press out of the way, the couple were...
Both Silverman and Cendant chairman Walter Forbes, (the former president of CUC) say they saw no hint of the fraud until very recently. Whether I believe them is less important than this: I had a chance to get out after the stock rallied on the first assurances, and I didn't. I wanted to be made whole--a costly impulse in these situations...
...number of class-action suits have been filed, but I doubt we will see much after the lawyers take their cuts. Looks as though the only winners here were the two top executives, who together sold more than $100 million worth of stock before we even smelled that first hint of trouble. The losers: those of us who believed that someone who once misled us wouldn't do it again...
...tried them all and is underwhelmed. While the quality of video e-mail resembles the herky-jerky style of communications with the Mir space station, a bigger problem is download time. Even compressed files tend to impose unbearably long waits for people stuck at the end of standard modems. Hint to video e-mailers: use the low-quality resolution, which creates smaller files. Hint to everyone else: most e-mail programs let you reject messages larger than 40 kilobytes. Do this...
...careful. If you have rotten kids, they can kick you out after the specified period. Hint: write in an option to rent the house as long as you like. Another catch is that you have to live the full term. Die early, and it's like the trust never existed. It works best for a vacation home because you're not parting with the house you live in and because heirs inherit the house at a low cost. And if they sell, they face a whopping capital-gains tax. Still, without the trust, estate taxes would claim an even bigger...