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...years, Richard Pierre found job candidates on popular work-search websites with postings for positions like a $70,000-a-year gig to be a programmer analyst in Toronto. The problem: Pierre wasn't an employer but a huckster who wound up stealing personal information from dozens of job seekers, fraudulently opening 44 credit cards and racking up some $300,000 in charges...
...Plenty of scams, though, are more elaborate and harder to detect. During a search of Richard Pierre's house, police seized thousands of envelopes with a fake company's logo...
...evidence suggests not. “Global warming caused by human beings is real but overblown because it has been over-forecast by our computer models,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finds that the United Nations’s computer models overestimated warming roughly by a factor of three. “The warming of the twenty-first century is going to be modest and frankly there?...
...Palestinian Authority President. At the instruction of Abbas, the Palestinian delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council withdrew support for moves to pursue war-crimes charges over Israel's January offensive in Gaza, effectively shelving U.N. action on an inquiry led by former international war-crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. So furious has been the reaction of Palestinians across the political spectrum that the move is being widely seen as the final nail in the President's political coffin - with the Palestinians due to hold parliamentary and presidential elections next year, Abbas...
...photographer Garry Gross. Gross told the Daily Telegraph he was disappointed that the photo was taken down and did not consider it pornographic, though "she was supposed to look like a sexy woman." The image removed from the Tate is actually a photo of that photo: in 1983, artist Richard Prince took a photograph of Gross's original photo, framed it, and titled it Spiritual America. And though it hasn't been censored before, it's not the first time it has stirred controversy. As an adult, Shield went to court to try to block further use of the photo...