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...Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc). "You can't organize forgiveness and you can't force someone to forgive. Microwave-oven forgiveness - where you just pop something in and bing! - that will never last." Just take a look at the South African experience. The trc, a courtlike body open to victims and perpetrators of apartheid-era violence, held public hearings for more than two years in the mid-1990s. Intended as a compromise between a war-crimes trial and national "amnesia," the Commission, led by South Africa's confessor in chief Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offered possible amnesty for perpetrators willing...
...learned about those debts the same day the bank did. (Journey had never asked for a Discover card or leased a Jetta.) She was the victim of the worst kind of identity theft--new accounts opened in victims' names without their knowledge, as opposed to the more common misuse of existing accounts. "My credit was destroyed," says the San Francisco-- based fitness model. Four years later, Journey, 29, still has to pay for everything in cash and has yet to resolve all the bills. "Dealing with this is like having a part-time job," she says...
More than 3 million Americans a year are victims of that kind of identity theft, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. The average cost to businesses, which usually swallow the losses, is $9,973 per victim. Now legislators and private industry are working to give citizens more ways to protect their credit...
...believe you have been a victim of identity theft, federal law allows you to place a fraud alert on your credit report for 90 days, legally compelling lenders to ask tougher questions to verify an applicant's identity. A company called TrustedID this week launches a new $7.95-a-month service to handle all the paperwork, every 90 days, to keep an alert on your file always. "The bureaus are inherently conflicted, wanting to sell information that needs protecting," says TrustedID co-founder Scott Mitic. The bureaus, not surprisingly, recommend buying different protection in the form of their monitoring services...
...Still, Italians are likely to barely notice the latest courtroom tussle. In a country where guilt is always relative, politicians tend to stick around through even the thickest mud. And most voters have long ago made up their minds that Berlusconi is either a crook or the victim of blood-thirsty prosecutors who want to usurp power from a democratically elected leader. The timing, so close to Berlusconi?s showdown with former European Commission President Romano Prodi, may actually help Berlusconi by convincing some of the relatively few undecided voters that there is indeed a political motive for the investigations...