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According to Gawker’s anonymous tipster, former Facebook CEO Eduardo L. Saverin ’05 is Mezrich’s only source, and Zuckerberg is now suing his former collaborator...
...Lodi, Calif., a town known as the "Zinfandel Capital of the World," a man told police he had seen al-Qaeda's No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the area in the late 1990s. That astonishing claim turned out to be false. But soon the very same tipster was working for the FBI and recording his conversations with a local ice cream-truck driver and his son to see if they were dangerous. The tipster was paid more than $225,000 for his trouble, and after an exhaustive interrogation, the son admitted to authorities that he had attended...
...saying goes, then Japanese artist Yoshihiko Wada could be considered one of the best. A painter whose dark, moody canvases could sell for upwards of $15,000, Wada won Japan's prestigious Minister of Education Art Encouragement Prize in March. But a few weeks later, an anonymous tipster alerted government officials that several of his paintings were virtual replicas of works by an Italian artist, Alberto Sughi. When confronted by the media, the 66-year-old Wada claimed his works were an "homage" to Sughi, not theft. Sughi, however, had a different view of their relationship. According to him, Wada...
...quest to be different, it has redefined the traditional newspaper menu to include far more consumer information, features about trends, poll results and just plain, unadorned facts, all of it served up in easily digested prose. If USA Today has a personality, it is that of the cheerful tipster, giving the best time to buy small cars or where to write for a booklet about veterans' benefits. "We take a much more personal approach to the news," says Publisher Cathleen Black, 41. "We are for busy people who want their news and information like this," she says, snapping her fingers...
...Lipscombs' unusual decision has dumbfounded Westerville, Ohio, a homogeneous Columbus suburb. (And a Republican stronghold: on his way to the G.O.P. Convention last month, George W. Bush stopped to read to students at a school here.) After the Lipscombs met with the principal, an anonymous tipster contacted the Franklin County Children Services agency, which swiftly asked a court to remove the minor from the home. A magistrate granted the agency temporary custody, citing "reasonable grounds to believe that the child is suffering from illness...and is not receiving proper care...