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Minkow knows how to play that gig. He went undercover after getting a call from a prospective investor in a pair of Southern California investment schemes and, posing as someone with extra cash to commit, found enough evidence to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to shutter the firms in November. They allegedly had conned nearly $26 million from more than 1,200 people, largely by targeting church-affiliated African Americans. In 2003 he managed to shut down another scheme, a California operation that targeted retirement funds worth $813 million. "Barry has a lot of insight into the many ways...
...that Kinsey “was always very proper in the way he presented himself…he was always able to hide behind the fact he was a professor,” even though he was engaged in sexual activities that would make even the most contemporary liberal shutter...
...massive amounts of aid. Seoul's increasingly close relationship with the North will make it harder for Washington to nail down a deal that leaves Kim Jong Il no wriggle room. But the new Administration is unlikely to back down from the position that any deal has to shutter North Korea's nuclear program for good...
...along camouflaged as their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese...
Ever sat at a ball game and wished you could see a quick repeat of that awesome play you just saw? Bushnell's Instant Replay binoculars ($600) let you do exactly that. As you peer through the lens, you can push a shutter button to capture up to 30 sec. of continuous footage. Then you can watch the video on a 2-in. LCD screen that flips open on top. The 16-MB CompactFlash card that comes with the glasses stores up to 2.5 min. of video or 150 still images. Want to give your friends a peek? Hook...