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...Internal Revenue Service is bracing for a deluge of amended tax returns from tens of thousands of victims caught up in the recent wave of multibillion-dollar Ponzi schemes and other frauds, most notably the sensational swindle perpetrated by Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford's $8 billion certificates-of-deposit scam...
...debate over the journalistic integrity and relevance of blogs has too often relied on “marshalling anecdotes” and has lacked quantitative evidence, said Ethan R. Zuckerman, a Berkman Fellow who was one of the developers of the site...
...last two years he was not associated with the division in any way,” Tsokos said. “He is not on my payroll, let’s put it that way.” Harold “Skip” R. Garner, Jr., who designed the search engine eTBLAST, which helped spot the duplication in Simon’s article last year, said in an e-mailed statement that it was “regrettable” that Simon would not longer be at Harvard.” Garner added that he did not understand...
...improvising on a basic framework that made [the Plan] very alive and very pragmatic,” Schulberg says.“It’s cool that we get to see them projected in the way that the people experienced at the time,” says Ned R. Hinkle, the Creative Director of the Brattle. These short films were usually shown preceding features in European movie theaters.“The idea behind the films—that they should not be done by Americans but by European directors—was psychologically extremely important...
...thriller.In conveying the book’s events and emotion, Snyder largely succeeds. The high revenue of his last directorial project, “300,” gained him leverage in resisting Warner Bros.’ efforts to shorten and update the film. With an R rating, Snyder was able to embrace the sex and violence of the novel and maintain its setting: a fictional 1985 in which a fifth-term Nixon celebrates American triumph in Vietnam. Our insight into this alternate reality comes from primary narrator and protagonist Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), whose deliciously gravel voice, hangdog...