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...Fayed was not accused of breaking any law, and he and the Sultan denied the charges. Al Fayed bitterly attacked the report as a smear. "They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me," he once said. But acquaintances of his in Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire...
...point that has recently been driven home to a number of celebrity victims of Web-smear, such as designer Tommy Hilfiger, falsely accused of racism; film star Brad Pitt, who can be seen online--and nude--in unauthorized photos of his buff vacation; and writer Kurt Vonnegut, who found himself depicted, if not unflatteringly, as the author of a commencement speech he never made. "Once a piece of information is out there, it's nearly impossible to obliterate," says Christine Varney, a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission and a privacy crusader...
...patients at risk," she explains. "But I think it's O.K. to use surgery to feel better about yourself." Nonetheless, she is close to her parents, who emigrated from Iran before she was born and settled in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. She plans to help her father market a Pap-smear test he invented...
WASHINGTON: Aggressively taking on Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr, President and Mrs. Clinton's private attorney accused the special prosecutor of violating grand jury secrecy rules for the purpose of launching a smear campaign against the First Lady. Responding to a New York Times Magazine article in which unnamed Whitewater prosecutors commented on the investigation, Kendall wrote to Starr that the prosecutor's office engaged in a public relations attack inconsistent with its legal responsibilities. "The comments of you and persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy...
...however, an easy place to be technological. Twenty miles from the nearest power line and perhaps twice as far from the nearest phone, the monastery is more than two hours from Albuquerque and an hour from anything that resembles civilization. No telephone bells fracture the silence. No TV images smear the crisp evening air. No pagers chirp. If you must reach one of the monks, a hand-carved wooden sign offers a simple 16th century suggestion: "Ring this bell...