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Safra's bank last year alerted the FBI to money-laundering operations emanating from Moscow, and Safra was widely reported to have obsessive fears for his life (Bonnant denies the fears). His security guards were recruited from among veterans of Israeli army special units. The night of the fire, however, Safra's entire security force were posted at his nearby villa; Safra was said to have wanted it that way, but it seemed a glaring lapse to leave him without a single guard. According to a Republic National bank spokeswoman, security chief Shmuel Cohen rushed to the apartment after...
...when he angled for his favorite parking spot near the State Department, then settled onto a well-worn bench. Whenever Gusev, 54, a technical specialist for the Russian intelligence service, fiddled with something in his pocket, the G's state-of-the-art radio-signal detector would come to life, indicating that a faint low-frequency transmission was emanating from a bug somewhere in the gray State offices...
...early days, the financial advice Giacchetto doled out was as stodgy as his social life was edgy. He spent hours poring over technical charts, and then steered his clients to blue chips like Merck and AT&T. But somewhere along the way, he was seduced by the adrenaline rush of higher risk. His Cassandra Group investment management company bet heavily on Iridium, the global telephone satellite firm that filed for bankruptcy last summer. He also invested in Paradise Music & Entertainment, which was paying him to serve as a consultant. (Giacchetto says he informed most of his clients of the arrangement...
...next week should feature a FireWire output, and any PC you want to use has to include a FireWire input. Most don't, of course, and you'll probably have to upgrade (see box). A major word of warning: FireWire does not work with Windows 95. You could make life a lot easier by purchasing an iMac...
...fever as brittle, sickle-shaped red blood cells clogged his vessels. At age 5, he was temporarily paralyzed by a stroke. Since then he has bravely endured blood transfusions as often as every two weeks via a catheter attached to his chest. Still the threat of devastating pain and life-threatening infections continued to shadow him. Anything like a normal life was a distant dream...