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...bitch," can your online provider be held responsible? That, in essence, is the issue being decided in state supreme court in New York thanks to a libel suit filed against Prodigy, one of the Big Three online services. A Long Island financial firm claims it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board. Prodigy, like other online service providers, regards itself simply as a conduit through which people communicate - like a telephone company - and thus claims it isn't responsible for postings. The suit, complains a company attorney, is "trying to establish responsibilities that aren't present...
Transcript fraud does exist, Smith and Fallontowne agree, but it hasn't been a major problem at Harvard...
...would have the same effect." And in a column in the Toronto Star, Henry Gordon, a local skeptic, likened that relief to the placebo effect, which, he wrote, "makes TT no different from the laying on of hands." Dr. William Jarvis, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, in Loma Linda, California, agrees: "I see therapeutic touch as a form of faith healing that has captured the imagination of a few nurses who happen to be in pretty powerful positions of influence within the nursing profession...
...settlement of a massive case, Justice Department officials announced today. American Express Bank International will give up $33 million seized by U.S. Customs agents in 1992 and $7 million made in money-laundering transactions on behalf of a Mexican drug organization. (Two bank officials were convicted on laundering and fraud charges earlier this year.) TIME assistant editor Bernard Baumohl, who covers business, says the troubles are part of a domino effect in law enforcement following the world's largest international banking scandal -- the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). "The Justice Department has been aggressively trying to find...
Nearly eight months after his March conviction on 41 counts of bank fraud, conspiracy and making false statements, Walsh was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison and two years' probation...