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...Bible's prediction of violence during this period gives the Left Behind books their gore. The nuclear frights of, say, Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears wouldn't fill a chapter in the Left Behind series. (Large chunks of several U.S. cities have been bombed to smithereens by page 110 of Book 3.) Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard, says part of the appeal of Left Behind lies in the "lip-licking anticipation of all the blood." But many nonbelievers come to Christ in the course of the books, and this holy "soul harvest" lends...
Enaam Arnaout is not an especially rich man. Yet every time the Syrian-born director of the Benevolence International Foundation, an Islamic charity, visited Bosnian offices over the past few years he would withdraw the same sum from a local bank: $50,000 in neat notes, 10 times in two years, or up to half a million bucks since 2000. Then the money would disappear. "We have no idea where it went," Ivica Misic, head of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission told TIME. He has his suspicions, though. In a case now before a U.S. court, FBI investigators are arguing that...
...would be no small irony if a dispute over such a relatively minor sum should turn out to be Kozlowski's, and his company's, undoing. (It was tax evasion, after all, that finally put Al Capone away.) Prosecutors claim that Kozlowski and his art dealers, who are cooperating with the investigation, had paintings shipped to Tyco's modest U.S. headquarters in Exeter, N.H., and then immediately returned to Kozlowski's apartment on New York City's Fifth Avenue--and in some cases shipped empty boxes to New Hampshire--to claim an exemption from New York sales tax. But those...
...hiring queue, behind the horde of anxious college grads, are the high school students who lack either the money or the grades or the inclination for higher education. Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum points out that 1 in 10 teenagers lost a job during the recession. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is trying to cut funding for federal job-training programs for young adults, even though independent studies have shown that for every dollar spent on programs for disadvantaged youth like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins...
...billion Total sum Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi reportedly says he'll pay 270 families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 if the U.S. and U.N. agree to lift sanctions against his country...