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SENIOR SCAM The FTC has issued a consumer alert against unscrupulous organizations that prey on thousands of senior citizens. With names like Remington Estate Services, they use deceptive practices to pressure victims into setting up living trusts that in many cases are worthless. A living trust, as opposed to a will, allows heirs to avoid probate-court proceedings since the title is vested with a trustee rather than the individual. But they can be costly--$500 to several thousand dollars. Since most people have modest estates, living trusts are not always warranted...
...coordinator of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq resigned in protest against continuing sanctions. "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," warned Irishman Denis Halliday. "It's as simple and terrifying as that.... Five thousand children are dying every month...
...lame. But there's the rub. DeGeneres has lost her barometer for testing laughworthiness. There's no quality control like a tough room, and all the rooms DeGeneres plays are warm and nurturing. It's as if she honed her routine by doing it for her mother and a thousand doting aunts. One of the reasons comedians make us laugh is that they see the world differently from us. They're ridiculously paranoid or filthy minded or clumsy. But Ellen is very warmly embraced by loads of folks. And as she has become more loved, she has become less lovable...
...Gore may be Washington's best known control freak, but when it comes to minutiae, he has nothing on Bob Graham, who these days appears on nearly everyone's short list of possible Gore running mates. The Florida Senator has been filling notebook after notebook--close to four thousand of them to date, color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person...
...among the starched white collars of Southampton at a glittery party attended by wealthy liberals from Manhattan over the 4th of July weekend. At the 78th annual dinner of the Agudath Israel, he outschmoozed all the other pols there. He was at the center of a thousand bobbing black hats in the Hilton ballroom eager to get a closer look at the golden son of Italy who had come seeking their support. He seems to embody white-picket-fence family values. You'd want him to marry your daughter if he hadn't already married his grad-school sweetheart...