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Julie Fergerson, a vice president at ClearCommerce, a supplier of sophisticated risk-management software for retailers, acknowledges the growth in international e-commerce fraud but urges online merchants to fight rather than quit: "U.S. e-tailers are leaving a lot of revenue on the table." The firm's proprietary GeoLocator and Risk-Scoring software screens incoming orders to separate the frauds from the real prospects...
...party to press for purist policies, from opposition to E.U. enlargement to insistence on tax cuts. It was this last drive, in the face of efforts by his own ministers to raise money for catastrophic flood damage, that finally forced Riess-Passer, Grasser and other Freedomite officials to quit. Haider has often spoken of forming a Europe-wide movement that would, among other things, attempt to block E.U. enlargement. If his performance over the past couple of years is anything to go by, proponents of the enlargement process must be hoping that he leads the charge against them. He could...
...When I went to the freshman activities fair, there were just so many things [I wanted to do],” Jobbins said. “What I tell my prefectees is that everyone signed up for things and quit. I just didn’t quit...
Even so, in those seven years, the inspection teams were never sure of their accounting. While they were in Iraq, Saddam admitted to just a fraction of his missile and chemical stores and falsely denied the existence of a biological program. After Saddam finally quit cooperating in 1998 and the U.S. and Britain bombarded Iraq for four days, the inspectors were gone for good, immensely disturbed by what they had not found. Yet they knew, based on discrepancies in Iraqi documents they had seized, that Iraq still hid 6,000 chemical bombs. They discounted Iraq's contention that...
...ever faithful. Former Marine Major Scott Ritter retains the military bearing and cropped haircut of his 12 years in the service. But he has lost faith in his government's policy toward Iraq, where he was the top inspector for UNSCOM, the United Nations weapons inspection team. He quit that post in 1998, complaining that the Clinton Administration was letting Saddam Hussein off too easily. No one would levy the same charge against the current White House, but Ritter is now even more critical of U.S. policy toward Iraq. Earlier this month he was back in Baghdad, where he became...