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...money in teaching FBI recruits.) A nerdy kid, the son of lower-middle-class parents in California's San Fernando Valley, Minkow says he got into scamming at the age of 16 and set up ZZZZ Best in his parents' garage so he could impress girls. "I learned that money brought respect, and it was like a narcotic," he says. "I couldn't live without it." At its peak, ZZZZ Best had 1,400 employees at 23 locations in three states. But the reality was something else: more than 85% of ZZZZ Best's cash flow came from undisclosed loans...
...kind of pessimistic. It’s so easy to impress judges with heavily connoted words like ‘virus,’ ‘pirate,’ ‘terrorist,’ ‘hacker’ and it’s difficult on the other hand to explain the scientific method and the deep curiosity that makes us analyze how software works and find their flaws,” Tena wrote last March on his website...
...this time it will have occurred to the viewer that what the film is dealing with is a sort of equatorial Oskar Schindler, an ordinarily selfish, not particularly idealistic human being who, under the impress of unimaginable events, finds within himself qualities of compassion neither he nor anyone else particularly guessed he had. One suspects that such men find in terrible situations an irresistible challenge not to their morality but to their amorality, their ability to manipulate people who, having lost their reason, can be mastered by those who are fully in charge of their faculties and thus in charge...
Like trucker caps and Uggs, custom ring tones are so ubiquitous, they're practically pass. If you really want to impress, get a ring-back tone. When someone calls you, the ringing sound the caller hears is replaced by a tune from Alicia Keys, Santana or another artist. TMobile launched the first nationwide service Dec. 8 with about 400 $1.99 music clips. You must be a TMobile customer to buy the tunes, but anyone who calls you will hear them. --By Anita Hamilton
Meanwhile, senior guard David Giovacchini continues to impress, as he came off a career game against Colgate to record 10 points and seven assists, though he did also cough up five turnovers...