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...court filing that two refs conspired to fix the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings. Donaghy claimed he wasn't the only rogue referee, as he described a corrupt culture in which refs would play tennis with coaches, ask players for autographs, and accept free meals and gifts from coaches and team officials. He said one ref was so close to a particular general manager that he deliberately made calls in his favor...
...more and more buyers are walking away, even when they find prices attractive. "Banks are a mess," says Dawn Connelly, a real estate investor in Palm City, Fla., who, despite dozens of offers, has bought only six houses in the past year. "They take months and months to accept an offer and aren't typically willing to make deals...
...economy nationwide shed 159,000 jobs; thousands of additional layoffs have been announced by major employers around the country since then. Tracey says many of her clients seeking employment are already getting desperate. One lost a home recently and is living with relatives. Some clients are scrambling to accept even temp positions that pay far less than the jobs they held before the layoffs. Others reveal a growing sense of fear simply in their voices when talking on the phone with Tracey, who says that most people eventually find some kind of employment. "It's not completely a black hole...
...appreciate there are two parties in this country.”Mansfield said he believed his colleagues act differently in his presence and often don’t speak as openly.Wisse, who supports McCain, also sharply criticized what she described as the College’s willingness to accept political imbalance as the status quo.“It is not healthy when one side assumes the other is barbaric and writes it off and never listens to it at all,” Wisse said. “It just assumes that everybody is made in its own image...
...Humbled and no doubt shamed by the world-wide attention the now infamous fling attracted, Strauss-Kahn echoed similar sentiments in responding to the finding, saying "I very much regret the incident and I accept responsibility...