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When police arrested Brooklyn, N.Y., busboy Abraham Abdallah in March, he had Forbes magazine's issue on the 400 richest people in America, plus Social Security numbers, credit-card numbers, bank-account information and mothers' maiden names of an A list of intended victims drawn from the issue, including Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart. Abdallah is accused of using websites, e-mail and off-line methods to try to steal the celebrities' identities and make off with millions in assets. One scheme that was caught in time: he allegedly sent an e-mail purporting to come from Siebel...
MICROSOFT Gates back atop Forbes list as richest man; Ballmer has java in White House with Veep...
...disease. And the bad news is that Annan's drive to create a global war chest for fighting the disease has so far attracted pledges of only $528 million - a little over five percent of its projected target, and that's after donations from the world's richest country (the Bush administration pledged $200 million) and the world's richest man (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised $100 million...
...civil government, launching the newly-independent nation's long slide into institutional theft and ultimate bankruptcy. Lumumba was placed under house arrest, and after he escaped, was captured, tortured and turned over to Moise Tshombe who had tried to lead a secessionist movement in Katanga, the Congo's richest province. With the blessing of both Belgium and the U.S., Lumumba was nearly beaten to death, then taken out to an isolated forest and shot. His body was hacked to pieces and then dissolved in acid in order to prevent its use as a symbol by the warring political factions...
...Republicans wanted to negotiate among themselves out of earshot of a Democrat, calls the bill "a fraud on the American people." He and others charge that the bill underestimates the true cost of the tax cuts by half a trillion dollars and that it is aimed squarely at the richest Americans...