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...York writers were still getting their fill of Little Leaguer Almontes saga of fastballs and fraud. The international press salivated over the soap opera that is womens tennis...
Hoffa is also posting his valentines to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The hope is that the Justice Department will shutter the three-member Independent Review Board, which monitors the union for fraud. Hoffa, who gets to choose one board member, has opted for G.O.P.-friendly lawyer Joe DiGenova. The Administration picks the other, and the two members select the third. Hoffa's move is likely to appease skeptical Republicans if the watchdog group says the Teamsters are clean...
First Miss Cleo was charged with fraud. Now telephone telepathics in Vietnam are under fire. There are more than 300,000 Vietnamese soldiers missing from the war, and Hanoi is warning that clairvoyants are duping distraught relatives of MIA soldiers with claims of a 70% success rate in tracking down loved ones' remains--with the help of cell phones. After an initial consultation, a seer draws a map with the location of the missing body. The family heads to the site and makes cell-phone contact to narrow the search, receiving instructions like "See that banana tree? A little...
...unseemly secret history of the biz. Lately it has been essential reading to get the story behind the collapse of Stan Lee Media, the internet venture of the legendary Marvel editor. (One of the partners has since moved to Brazil while federal authorities seek to extradite him on securities fraud charges. Stan Lee has not been charged with any wrongdoing.) The "Journal"'s news section does excellent work, though it also has its weak spots. Since 1982 the company that publishes "The Comics Journal," Fantagraphics Books, has been publishing its own comicbook line, including many of the most significant titles...
...owner. From there, they flew to Jakarta and split up, laying low in Sangir for a year before returning to Batam, an island city neighboring Babi. The captain has no idea where the palm oil was sold, but says shipowners often organize pirate attacks as part of an insurance fraud. Only the Chinese bosses know all the details, he says...