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...depot halted deliveries in the area in 2005, for fear of drivers being set upon by local youths. (The firm has since resumed normal service.) On Stephenson Street, around the corner from the depot, houses thrown up in the time of Dickens have long since made way for barbed wire-laced industrial units, the grinding of saws behind closed doors drowning out the faint crackle of the power lines overhead. Inside a tiny corrugated iron shell, the air thick with the smell of fried eggs and sausage, Ahmet Yucetan's café relies on the local laborers for its trade...
...Toreros roared back with a win at No. 5 over Guzick, before another freshman threw Harvard a lifeline; returning from injury, No. 4 Manghan ground out victory over Juan de Villiers (7-6, 6-1).With three singles points up for grabs, the remaining matches went down to the wire in the top three courts. Unfortunately for the Crimson, no one could prevail in three sets.An opening set win for No. 1 Chijoff-Evans proved a false omen when he lost comprehensively to Dean Jackson (6-4, 1-6, 1-6). At No. 2, freshman Alistair Felton battled in vain...
...appear he was executing trades in European markets, as he told federal regulators. Madoff made no trades at all with his Chase account, but rather just collected investor monies, wrote checks to investors, and took money for himself. In court, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 counts of fraud, from wire transfer to money-laundering...
...Jackson, director of threat intelligence for Atlanta-based SecureWorks, information-security experts on financial cyberthreat. "The problem with financial-fraud technology is that it's only as good as how it's set up," Jackson says. "If it's set up for a high-volume and multiple-wire-transfers account, then it won't reveal anything strange when there's lots of activity, like Madoff's account. The only way to stop this kind of fraud is for the bank to know its client better and to report things that might be suspicious. It really comes down to human control...
...military in Mosul use their real names. Tagged on their standard issue camo shirts, Abdul becomes Mark, or Pablo, or Bill. Ricky chain-smokes and sweats heavily; earlier that day he had shown me the ugly marks on his back and arms that, he said, were scars from electrical wire torture by Saddam Hussein's security forces. They tortured him, he said, because his brother was a member of Kurdish intelligence. He tells me that because of what the Americans did to Saddam, he trusts them. (See why Arab-Kurd animosity threatens Iraq's fragile peace...