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ARRESTED. WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA, 65, controversial ex-wife of Nelson Mandela; on 85 counts of fraud involving more than $100,000; in Pretoria. The charges involve an alleged scheme to obtain loans for nonexistent employees of the African National Congress Woman's League, of which she is president...
...card system has been around for decades, but the recent terrorist attacks--and an unlikely champion--have given it new life. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Larry Ellison, zillionaire CEO of software titan Oracle, met with Attorney General Ashcroft last week to drum up support for his scheme: all immigrants and consenting U.S. citizens would be issued a "smart card"--like a credit card with a microchip--linked to federal records of their vital statistics, including their thumbprint...
...film, Amy Eldon says that this is her way of dealing with her grief, which had left her with large questions as to Dan Eldon’s motivation and what his death meant in the larger scheme of things. The documentary started off as a paper for one of Amy Eldon’s college classes. She wrote a treatment for a film that would explore what led her brother to feel so passionate about work under horrible and extremely dangerous conditions. “It got a B+,” she noted wryly. The actual film...
...decision to show their best side at the grille was part of an elaborate scheme that came to Guilianelli “in a dream.” The boys acted on Guilianelli’s fantasy only a few days later by laying down an electric gauntlet to Kirkland residents. On the grille’s rainbow-colored electronic message board, they informed their salivating patrons that if they managed to sell $200 worth of grill items in a single night, that they would follow up such monetary success with a subsequent night of naked grilling. Several nights later...
Conspicuously missing, however, was coverage of college coeds. But perhaps The New York Times was on to something when it left mention of America’s undergraduate population out of its spread. Could it be that, in the grand scheme of things, college relationships hardly matter anymore...