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...April the FBI cracked a Russian ring and charged a pair of its members with conspiracy and fraud. The hackers were also allegedly involved in website "spoofing." Federal officials said the Russians tried to create a counterfeit website mimicking the real home page of PayPal, the popular online fund-transfer service. PayPal has been hit with such spoofs several times. When a fake site was operating, hackers e-mailed PayPal users and got them to click on a hyperlink with the spoof site's domain name: www.paypai.com On many computers, a capital I looks identical...
...Hong Kong two weeks ago. That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, is courting her for a script to be shot in China, based on Yan Geling's novel, The Lost Daughter of Happiness. And last week Shu Qi signed up with...
...narrow streets. They reportedly considered holding the summit on a ship in the bay, but later decided that would be a colossal humiliation. Still, they're planning to billet the heads of state aboard ships, from where they can be flown to the summit venue, and to create a "ring of steel" around the city in the hope that by shutting it off to the outside world they can keep out the malcontents...
...Bush is going soft on defense, Perle is returning to the battlefield. Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better able to catch his ear should Perle find the Pentagon underfunded or slow in building a missile shield. So far, he has been uncharacteristically sunny. Says he: "Personally, I haven't seen anything to criticize...
...haze of incense smoke. He insists government reforms are being orchestrated by officials with ties to larger funeral companies that want to see firms like his go belly up. Threatening these officials' lives is necessary to "show the public what's at stake," he says, twisting a diamond-crusted ring around his fat forefinger...