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Harvard continues its season on Tuesday with a non-conference bout against Vermont at Lavietes Pavilion. Tip...
...embassy in Yemen, CENTCOM and the intelligence community certainly saw the same threat information: a precedent of attacks combined with violently anti-American groups in a fluid environment wherein penetration of the government and local companies assisting the U.S. refueling operations was probable. The alleged tip-off by an Arab ally of possible anti-U.S. operations in the region, combined with the onset of Arab-Israeli violence and Baghdads renewed efforts to break out of the sanctions box, should have underscored the need for extra precautions...
...Hedgepath, president of Pegasus Originals, was vacationing in the Rockies last summer when he got a tip-off via e-mail. Internet users were flocking to a new website and furiously downloading his artists' copyrighted work for free. The site shut off the downloads when Hedgepath threatened to sue. But within days the same bootlegs were circulating on an underground, members-only site. All this easy Internet piracy made Hedgepath despair for the future of his craft. "Many artists have gone, and many more will go," he sighs. "I've talked to a lot who are looking for something else...
...online. Large banks like Chase Manhattan pay millions of dollars a year in premiums to insure against a rogue trader like Leeson. Your best protection against a rogue Internet hypster is just not to listen. Most pump-and-dump schemes involve micro-cap stocks. That's your first tip-off. Often they hype them as likely to double or better in weeks. If you have questions, the SEC has a brochure, "Pump&Dump.con," with tips for avoiding scams. It's available at www.sec.gov...
...that soccer mom who's had it up to here with Hillary couldn't have put it better! But the ink on the letter was barely dry before Lazio was trying to put a smiley face above the i in his signature. "Frankly," Lazio said, always a tip-off that a politician is about to fog up your glasses, "these letters are written, you know, not by me." Riding on his newly christened Mainstream Express, he went on to explain, "It's not what you send some donor list that matters. What matters is how you are conducting yourself...