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...Wednesday, the dashing, ambitious and hugely popular Democrat came crashing into a crisis. Alex Tourk, Newsom's buddy and campaign manager, abruptly quit after confronting the mayor about having an illicit affair with his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, 34, who once worked as an appointment secretary to Newsom. Apparently, while in rehab for substance abuse, Rippey-Tourk told her husband about her affair with Newsom. Rumors about the apparently short-lived affair had been circulating for about a year, according to City Hall staffers. "I didn't pay that much attention," City Supervisor Tom Ammiano said. "I dismissed...
...Paris meeting in mid-January was a tense affair. In an oak-paneled conference room of an elegant mansion that once belonged to the Rothschild family, government representatives from more than 30 countries listened skeptically as British officials explained why they had dropped a high-profile bribery investigation into $80 billion in British contracts to supply military aircraft and other equipment to Saudi Arabia...
...unproductive and corrupt in Brazilian history. The outgoing parliamentarians were so recalcitrant that Lula, in his first term, quickly decided the only way to move forward was to pay them for their support, and fully one-fifth of them were under investigation for involvement in that cash-for-votes affair or one of several other corruption scandals...
...portrayal of Ford's pardon of President Richard Nixon as a reflection that "mercy and healing" were very much on Ford's mind at the time. Far from an act designed to help a poor beleaguered President and heal this nation's wounds caused by the Watergate affair, the pardon was a calculated political move. The pardon blocked application of the rule of law to a President who committed criminal acts while in office and was intended to save Nixon and the Republican Party from further legal scrutiny. It will forever sully Ford's record as President. Charles Tripp Professor...
...cases of net vigilanteism in which individuals have been tracked, identified and hounded. In one case, a university student was hounded out of his university and forced to barricade himself in his home after a husband posted a 5,000-word attack online accusing the man of having an affair with his wife - the husband's denunciation prompted groups of total strangers to get together online and form teams that went out and hunted down the student in the real world...