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Bribery has always been a difficult thing to prove, absent a videotape of a crook stuffing the pockets of a politician with cash. But so large are the amounts involved?and so voluminous the evidence from a man who committed nearly every thought to e-mail?that prosecutors in the Abramoff case may even test the proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove...
...hard to believe. He can be very absent-minded." MARIE CORNELIUSEN, mother of artist Trevor Corneliusen of Olympia, Washington, who chained and padlocked his feet together for a self-portrait while camping in California's Mojave Desert and had to hobble for 12 hours to find help after he lost...
...There's a personal accountability issue here. Absent something like a flood where you're actually forced out of your house I don't think it's unreasonable to think that folk should be able to last [on their own] for maybe 48, 72 hours. If you run a nursing home that is six floors high in an area with 90% humidity and 90 degrees, [should] you have an emergency generator that only lasts 10 hours? I mean, have we come to the state in this country where all of a sudden the absence of electricity is a disaster...
...million in Coca-Cola Co. stock, as well as $1.137 million in Coca-Cola subsidiaries, as of Sept. 30, 2005. Despite the University’s investments in Coca-Cola, there have been no student protests here similar to those at Michigan urging contract cancellation. Harvard was also absent from a May 2005 meeting in Washington, DC, between concerned college administrators and students and Coca-Cola executives, according to Coca-Cola spokeswoman Kari Bjorhus. A working group created after the meeting has been in collaboration with the soft drink company to develop assessment protocols of its business practices that...
...There's a personal accountability issue here. Absent something like a flood where you're actually forced out of your house I don't think it's unreasonable to think that folk should be able to last [on their own] for maybe 48, 72 hours. If you run a nursing home that is six floors high in an area with 90% humidity and 90 degrees, [should] you have an emergency generator that only lasts 10 hours? I mean, have we come to the state in this country where all of a sudden the absence of electricity is a disaster...