America is facing criticism for taking charge of distributing copies of Saddam Hussein's weapons declaration, which was sent to the United Nations last week.

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Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee in charge of recovering and distributing Madoff's assets, has filed a slew of lawsuits in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan over the past week on behalf of some of Madoff's victims.

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America alone has about 1.4m of them by one count, including hospitals and universities, if not yogurt factories, that charge low rates to the poor and are forbidden from distributing their profits to owners.

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