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...nanny was entitled to the permit anyway - but Blunkett had insisted there had been no intervention at all. (He later said he had forgotten the e-mail and fax.) Several missteps had steered him toward this patch of political quicksand. The public seemed willing to forgive his three-year affair with a married woman - his hardscrabble background, blindness and gift for straight talk bought him sympathy - but worried that his judgment had become skewed when he went to court to demand access to his lover's 2-year-old boy, who Blunkett says is his son. An authorized biography full...
...scandal over his alleged involvement in expediting a residence visa for his ex-lover's nanny; in London. Although Blunkett denied any wrongdoing, the scandal capped a string of career-damaging revelations, including nasty remarks about his colleagues made in a recent biography, the disclosure of his three-year affair with American publisher Kimberly Quinn, and his claims to have fathered her two-year-old son. Born blind, Blunkett rose from working-class roots to become one of Prime Minister Tony Blair's closest allies; his security initiatives were to be a cornerstone of Blair's upcoming re-election campaign...
...investigations will pursue the international financial institutions for their role in the Parmalat collapse--or, conversely, whether the foreign firms will get back any of the money they say they lost--is unclear. As for Ferraris, who is awaiting trial for market manipulation, he is "flabbergasted" by the whole affair. "I believed so much in Tanzi as an entrepreneur that I have a hard time seeing him as anything else," he says. "For 13 years I think he's a genius, and then I find out he's a crook." If Ferraris wishes he had never been seduced by Tanzi...
...league launched the program in New Orleans because of Louisiana's love affair with the game. It held the training sessions in a tough neighborhood near the Crescent City Connection, a Mississippi River bridge, because of the area's high number of single-parent households. Moms in this part of town don't hesitate to do what traditionalists might see as a dad's job. The new coaches quickly won their players' respect. "They're tough and not afraid to holler at you," said Ryan Aaron, 15. "They get down and dirty just like...
...Bougainville this month to launch a military intervention campaign. They say there are already as many as six mercenaries in Arawa with A.F.P. contingents who are to be "ready for frontline operations when the offensive begins." The claims have been dismissed as nonsense by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs. In response to the perceived threat, Mekamui officials have placed a road block at Aropa airport on the highway south from Arawa to stop the A.F.P. from traveling to the city of Buin. When Time was stopped at Aropa, the guards manning the checkpoint were searching vehicles. And late last...