Taxpayers must pay their share of the ‘use tax’ PERSONAL FINANCE Fred CroopTo some it is considered an established art form, while for others it resembles a contact sport. I am not talking about the latest American realist painter or an upcoming cage match in professional wrestling. Rather, I am referring to the holiday shopping season in which bargain-conscious shoppers annually scour countless sales fliers and Internet sites in search of the best deal.Times Leader - Feb 05 12:04am Ex-Stanford exec tells jurors bank's profits fakedJailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford helped fake profit numbers for his Caribbean bank and funnel millions of dollars of depositor funds to a secret Swiss bank account used to pay for personal expenses, bribes to regulators and employee bonuses, the man who was in charge of the tycoon's books told jurors.KPRC Local 2 Houston - Feb 03 02:56pm A dickens of a time with a 200th birthdayNEW YORK The visitors have been coming at a steady trickle, reverent, bemused, squinting at the crabbed handwriting in the anguished letters from his American tour ("They will never leave me alone ... I shake hands every day ... with five or six hundred people"), the missives on mesmerism, philanthropy, storytelling, Christmas books and his own manic energy.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Feb 05 10:43am Military Wives' Success Leads To Album PlansGareth Malone and the Military Wives' Christmas Number One single raised over £500,000, it has been announced, as the choir reveals plans to release an album.Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Feb 06 05:29am