Word: marked
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...With reporting by Cathleen Farrell/Bogota, Mark Thompson and Jay Branegan/Washington
...each). Privately, she contributed $70,000 to Newt Gingrich's political-action committee, GOPAC. A daughter, Deborah, worked for Senator Jesse Helms as a Foreign Relations Committee aide, specializing in the right-wing Latin American parties Helms favored in the 1980s. (She has since left the foundation board.) Mark, a board member, worked for Jerry Falwell before founding the DeMoss Group, a p.r. firm for evangelists like Billy Graham's son Franklin. Mark's father-in-law is Art Williams, the insurance magnate who bailed out Falwell's debt-ridden Liberty University with a $70 million gift...
...make lanyards and swim. But Chase Culeman-Beckman claims he got an education with more far-reaching implications. Now 19, Culeman-Beckman says in 1988 he went to day camp with Jacob Bernstein, son of former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, and Jacob told him that W. MARK FELT, associate director of the FBI during Watergate, was the shadowy source known as Deep Throat. Culeman-Beckman researched the theory for a high school history class and this summer copyrighted an essay supporting it. But Carl Bernstein says he never told Jacob or his mother, screenwriter Nora Ephron, the identity...
Meanwhile, a similar suit has been brought against First USA, the No. 1 credit-card issuer with 45 million accounts, for deliberately "delaying posting of customer payments in order to charge late fees and penalty interest"--an allegation the company denies. First USA's alleged trick was to mark statements as arriving on time only if they were received by 8 a.m. of the due date. The company has since changed that time--to 10 a.m. In San Francisco, Providian Financial faces lawsuits for allegedly billing customers for services they didn't want, like credit insurance. Providian says the charges...
...start to lose, and you try to make it back, but you lose more. You lose the rent money and then the college money. That activates feelings of inadequacy, failure and catastrophe. You start blaming everyone but yourself. It's very destructive." Authorities believe something like that occurred with Mark Barton...