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...halls of politics and power, most economists are like wallpaper-- full of intricate details but ultimately decoration. Jeffrey Sachs, however, is a brand name. A player. There's Jeff with the Pope. There's Jeff with U.N. chief Kofi Annan. There's Jeff with his save-the-world sidekick, U2's Bono...
Psst! Want to buy some pictures of Paris Hilton naked? Oh, you already have some. To the glee of Internet voyeurs, someone hacked Hilton's Sidekick II, a wireless phone/camera/PDA/Internet terminal sold by T-Mobile. The hacker then spilled its contents online, including numbers of celeb pals such as Ashlee Simpson and Eminem, along with photos of a topless Hilton cavorting with Eglantina Zingg, a VJ for MTV Latin America. The intruder didn't hack the Sidekick; he nailed the server that stored Hilton's personal data...
...device and, when possible, disable wireless features that connect users to the Net, such as Bluetooth, which can serve as a back door to hackers. Celebs aren't the only ones at risk. Before he was caught, Jacobsen was reportedly amusing himself by reading the e-mail of another Sidekick customer: a Secret Service agent assigned to hunt down cybercrooks. --Reported by Sandra Marquez/Los Angeles
...point, Constantine’s sidekick Chaz wonders aloud why this divine gorefest doesn’t match up with the Biblical lessons in which he’s been brought up. The world-weary Constantine brushes aside all questions of discrepancy between traditional Christianity and the film’s unorthodox interpretation with a characteristically curt, “It’s not like the books...
...author is more intriguing than its protagonist. But in the case of At Risk (Knopf; 367 pages) it really can't be helped. At Risk is a thriller about Liz Carlyle, a plucky young agent in MI5 (Britain's equivalent of the FBI) who spars with a roguish male sidekick while chasing a bomb-toting Islamic terrorist and his "invisible" (blond, British and female) co-conspirator. The book follows the standard spy-novel formula, though the formula works with surprising elegance--perhaps because its author, Stella Rimington, is a former director general of MI5 who spent 30 years foiling...