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...last receipts was written out to a favorite of Milosevic's wife, Mira, for 2 million deutsche marks ($900,000) on Oct. 4, 2000 - the day before the revolution. When Dragan and his armed men raided Kertes' offices two days later, they found a trove that included $1.3 million in deutsche marks and Yugoslav dinars, 15 sniper rifles, 10 bulletproof luxury cars, and, in a safe, 7 kg of high-grade heroin...
...held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay is a bottomless treasure trove of news items - from the boy who tried to sell his soul, to the convicted killer who capitalized on his rapidly evaporating minutes of fame by trading in his hair follicles and calluses. You could argue that such disreputable excess is bad publicity. Then again, there are a million companies...
...Several kitchen-table brainstorming sessions later, Hadfield and his father Greg had a business plan. Soccernet, one of the first commercial football sites, attracted thousands of Net-savvy fans with its trove of data on English soccer, including match details and player bios. After Greg quit his job as chief reporter at the Sunday Express to work full-time on the site, father and son spent 14 hours a day together - "the best thing about Soccernet," says Tom. The two found a buyer, Britain's Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which let them retain creative control. But after World...
...knew well who Cherkashin was: Moscow's chief counterspy at the Soviet embassy, a KGB colonel adept at handling double agents. (Cherkashin was already masterminding the activities of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, who was not uncovered until 1994.) Inside that second envelope was an anonymous offer to send a trove of classified papers to the KGB in exchange for $100,000, and a proposal to keep on selling similar secrets. "They are from certain of the most sensitive and highly compartmented projects of the U.S. intelligence community," wrote the man identifying himself only as "B." "All are originals...
...useful to analyze differences in civic engagement across the country. The survey maps the relative strengths and areas for improvement in communities' civic behavior and sets a baseline against which future progress can be assessed in another survey several years hence," Putnam said. "It represents an extraordinary, enormous trove of data for policymakers, researchers and community builders...