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Some of the smartest scam artists, Minkow explains, target groups united by religion, race or ethnic origin. From 1998 to 2001, at least 80,000 people lost $2 billion in religious-investor frauds, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group representing state regulators. In fact, most of the eight major frauds Minkow helped uncover in the past year have involved hustlers trying to sell investments to church groups...
...intellectual underpinnings of the latest assault on Darwin's theory come not from Bible-wielding Fundamentalists but from well-funded think tanks promoting a theory they call intelligent design, or I.D. for short. Their basic argument is that the origin of life, the diversity of species and even the structure of organs like the eye are so bewilderingly complex that they can only be the handiwork of a higher intelligence (name and nature unspecified...
...foreign Ambassador, after Germany invaded Belgium and Britain declared war, the King exclaimed, "My God, Sir, what else could we do?" All fine theories spun to explain "the economic origin of the World War" have been wasted on His Majesty...
...National Center for Cinematography for state funds to subsidize this film. Furthermore, the film is ineligible to compete for an award in next year’s Cannes Film Festival because it has now been shown in the United States, a country other than its nation of origin...
...even wrote a song about the Mystic River. It was from these beginnings that he started to play with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Miles Davis. Moving on to assemble many famed groups (including Circle, Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band and Origin) and having played with nearly every jazz great of the modern era (from Herbie Hancock to Gary Burton), Corea’s career reads like a jazz history book. Constantly stretching the limits of his art (and winning 12 Grammys in the process) Corea is undoubtedly one of jazz?...