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...transport. By the end of last week, all 20 men were in custody. The FBI said that they did not appear to have a connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. But that was scant comfort; they might have had their own scary plans. At the least, the scam exposed gaping holes in the haz-mat licensing process--there are 2.5 million of the licenses nationwide, and in some states they're a notorious source of kickbacks...
JERRY JACOBSON Cops say he ran $13 million McDonald's Monopoly scam. Go to jail, go directly to jail...
...started out as a bit of a scam. A few weeks ago, I casually suggested to my editor that I write a column on online reading clubs. "They're really interesting, and there are tons of them," I said, after conducting a seven-minute search on the topic. "Good idea," he replied, much to my amazement. Yippee! Now I could spend a couple of weeks reading and talking about mysteries, silly novels and lofty literature, all in the name of service journalism...
Breaux: We can take more time on this committee to look at problems like making long-term health care affordable and making sure that housing is going to be there for elderly people to live independently. We're going to investigate these scam programs that are targeting elderly people to get them to buy idiotic products. They advertise that if you buy these products, you can live to be 110 and have an active sex life and participate in the Olympics...
...Flannery O'Connor at her darkest, "Heavy" is one of Southern's most pointed comments about human nature, and a perfect example of his crisp, succinct approach to writing (one can think of several crime novelists - e.g.think Donald Westlake - who would have spun "Heavy" into a full-length "scam" novel...