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...bishop, no doubt. It was a miracle.' WALTER RAMON ACOSTA, lawyer for Viviana Carrillo, recounting how her 2-year-old son once survived a three-story fall unscathed. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo recently admitted to fathering the child while serving as a Roman Catholic bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...when U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta held a press conference in West Palm Beach on Friday to announce corruption charges against 18-year county commissioner Mary McCarty, he couldn't have summed up the collective feelings of the county's scandal-weary citizens any better. "Today I have a sense of déjà vu," Acosta remarked. (See TIME's top 10 scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach: The New Capital of Florida Corruption | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...only certainty in the county is that more politicians in the area will be accused of bad behavior. "I wish I could say this is the last one, but I fear it isn't," Acosta said. The FBI set up a full-time corruption squad in West Palm Beach in 2007, and Acosta announced on Friday that the U.S. Attorney's Office recently bought an extra floor of space in the building it is housed in. The way things are going, they'll need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach: The New Capital of Florida Corruption | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...reason he would not make a good President is like saying, "Sure, Tiger Woods is a celebrity, but can he play golf?" [Aug. 11]. Woods is a celebrity because he is good at what he does: golf. Obama is a celebrity because he is good at politics. Period. Ignacio Acosta, ARLINGTON, TEXAS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalism 2.0 | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...reason he would not make a good President is like saying "Sure, Tiger Woods is a celebrity, but can he play golf?" [Aug. 11]. Woods is a celebrity because he is good at what he does: golf. Obama is a celebrity because he is good at politics. Period. Ignacio Acosta, Arlington, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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