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None of those threats were proved to have come from Michael Abram, but it was Abram, a 33-year-old Beatle obsessive from a Liverpool suburb, who, in the dead of night on Dec. 30, 1999, got past the alarms and razor wire at Friar Park and broke into the Harrisons' mansion. George suffered an inch-deep stab wound to his chest before Olivia knocked Abram down with a bedside lamp. Harrison recovered, and Abram was sent to a mental institution...
...crackdown. That may change this week, when U.S. diplomat Bill Burns visits Saudi Arabia. He will bring with him, U.S. sources tell TIME, intelligence data linking some of the kingdom's leading money men and charities to Osama bin Laden. The data will include sensitive intercepts, human intelligence and wire transfers to back up American demands that the Saudis freeze assets of suspected bin Laden financiers...
...Meanwhile, Walker himself remains a total mystery. By most accounts, he seems to be at least slightly unhinged (an observation echoed by a Northern Alliance fighter who, according to wire reports, indicated the young American and made the universal gesture for "crazy"). Whether he's mentally competent to stand trial remains to be seen, but some legal experts suspect Walker will not be tried as a traitor; instead he'll be charged with sedition - a largely unused charge that implies the advocacy of violence against the government - or some other, lesser crime...
...that asks humans to make far too many decisions before their first cup of coffee. Krups' ToastControl Digital, which sells for $70, packs in even more options, including two for saving your favorite settings, like the bookmarks on your Web browser. Two glass-sealed quartz rods replace the usual wire heating elements inside and are supposed to toast your bread faster without drying it out. A built-in digital timer tells you precisely how many seconds are left...
...Dynegy, will happily fill in the trading space - that's what markets do. And Enron, once No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500, will file for bankruptcy, sell off its assets, and very likely disappear, having found (like derivatives-slinger Long-Term Capital Investment of yesteryear) that in the high-wire life of trading for profits, too much leverage, too-clever accounting and a few bad breaks can be a lethal combination...