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These days, when he isn't preaching or scam busting, Minkow delivers speeches on fraud to corporate officers, insurance companies, accountants and law-enforcement groups, often appearing in a bright orange prison jump suit. At Quantico, as his 150 student FBI agents scribbled notes, he walked through Fraud 101, explaining the psychology of the scam. "A lot of con men just want to please everyone," he says. He stresses that in a successful con game, appearances are everything. "After all," says Minkow, "fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie." Spoken by the master...
...Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, both based in New York City, adopted anti-terrorism language in their grants agreements last year that critics claimed infringed on academic freedoms. Ford was prompted to do so by criticism that its money paid the bills for anti-Semitic organizations; Rockefeller soon followed suit...
Rockefeller soon followed suit. Last March, it told Harvard that grantees—who have received money from Rockefeller to study issues like the global AIDS epidemic—could not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity...
...cultural borders. "We would not know the etiquette, how to sit, how to hold the scabbard or the hilt, how to slide the blade out by the back surface only. We were gaijin, capable of only hurting the swords or ourselves." An interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino, creator of Mobile Suit Gundam and Charley's personal hero, devolves into a virtual stalemate, each side just missing the other...
...heart of Wrong About Japan. One of the writer's most persistent misunderstandings comes over the term otaku, which typically describes fans so devoted that they all but lose touch with the rest of the world. Carey sees a metaphor for the otaku in the characters of Mobile Suit Gundam?kids who fight battles from inside giant robots, alienated from everything outside them. As Charley interacts more fluently with the ticket machines on the Tokyo subway than with the people around him, it's not hard to understand what Carey fears. But he's wrong again?a writer for Gundam...