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...ambitious Saudis, but after the 9/11 attacks and the discovery that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from the desert kingdom, many Saudi students, as well as those from other Arab and Muslim countries, rushed home fearful of repercussions. Few filled their places. As he made the long journey from Riyadh to Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., al-Dehaim, 18, admitted he was still "nervous that American people would get nervous about Saudi people...
...Heidi Journey's dreams of opening her own business were shattered when the bank she applied to for a loan found out about her credit history. Journey owed $10,000 on a Discover card, had a Volkswagen Jetta repossessed after failing to make payments, broke an apartment lease, didn't pay college fees and owed money on utility and cell-phone bills...
...learned about those debts the same day the bank did. (Journey had never asked for a Discover card or leased a Jetta.) She was the victim of the worst kind of identity theft--new accounts opened in victims' names without their knowledge, as opposed to the more common misuse of existing accounts. "My credit was destroyed," says the San Francisco-- based fitness model. Four years later, Journey, 29, still has to pay for everything in cash and has yet to resolve all the bills. "Dealing with this is like having a part-time job," she says...
Thanks to California's law, Journey has locked her credit report up tight, and urges family and friends to get any protection they can, too. "Not that it does me any good, because my credit is still screwed up," she says. "But my parents recently got a call asking if they were really trying to buy a sofa in the Middle East." They were...
...have begun put their own war criminals on trial; these courts will continue to work long after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) shuts down its proceedings in The Hague, where Milosevic died under detention and undergoing trial. His death will not affect this slow, difficult journey towards normalcy. He had already played his part: the opening act of hateful bravura, unburdened by conscience, in what will be an extended expatiation of all guilt. Milosevic will be buried. It is now up to the survivors to ensure that the spirit of Milosevic is buried...