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This even-year season begins without the IRA trophy—a stinging reminder to a varsity eight that went almost wire-to-wire as the nation’s No. 1 crew last year...
...belly of a tanker truck. They know they can get a job no one else wants, save some money, send some home, maybe find a way to bring their family--because someday this border may not look anything like what it does now: a barbed-wire paradox, half pried open, half bolted closed...
SENTENCED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 47, Washington lobbyist who pleaded guilty to offering bribes to members of Congress; to five years and 10 months in jail, in a separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...
...been burned in an Internet auction--not by far. According to the list of top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 2005, released in January, Internet-related scams accounted for 46%, or 316,000, of all fraud gripes last year. And the percentage of Internet frauds with "wire transfer" as the reported payment method more than tripled from...
...AVOID WIRE TRANSFERS. Use secure payment systems like PayPal for small-ticket items. For more expensive items, use a legitimate escrow service like Escrow.com in which your money is held by an intermediary until you've inspected the merchandise...