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775 Number of dormant Swiss bank accounts, according to a 1995 Swiss investigation
53,886 Number of dormant Swiss accounts held by Holocaust victims, according to a recently released independent-panel investigation
TOFU QUEEN At the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas last week, Brandy DeJongh, the newly crowned Miss Rodeo America 2000, got smacked with a chocolate-tofu pie by Dawn Carr, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA doesn't like rodeos.
Sales at Rite Aid are up a healthy 9%, and most of its nearly 4,000 locations are jammed with customers in search of a cure for everything from pimples to arthritis. So why are Wall Street wags calling it Wrong Aid?
While rivals like CVS and Walgreens are enjoying record profits, the nation's second largest drugstore chain is saddled with billions of dollars in debt and caught in the crosshairs of an SEC investigation into its questionable accounting practices. For months the bad news has been relentless: In mid-October...