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...billion sale went through in 1991, generating a $6.43 million commission for Deviers-Joncour. Dumas claims that he always opposed the deal, fearing it would trouble relations with China, but that President Fran?ois Mitterrand overruled him. Though the Taiwan affair was central to the investigation, prosecutors have excluded it from the current trial. Reason: addressing the frigate sale could cause the whole case to be thrown out?under French law, only a special Justice Court of the Republic has jurisdiction to try a senior government official for acts related to his functions...
...Cornell is a very hard-working and physical team," Moore said. "We always play them close, and we're looking for the same affair on Saturday...
...aside for a moment the strutting hypocrisy revealed by Jesse Jackson's confession last week that in 1998, at the very moment he was providing pastoral counseling to the White House's resident adulterer, he was carrying on an extramarital affair of his own, with a subordinate who later gave birth to his child. Focus instead on his stupidity: How could the nation's premier civil rights leader have been so reckless? Of course, that's the same question everybody was asking about Bill Clinton in 1998. But at least Clinton isn't a minister...
...there's one thing this sordid episode proves, it's that Jackson believes black folks will tolerate almost any behavior from their leaders. But this time he's gone too far. Impregnating Karin Stanford--a former political-science professor who at the time of the affair was head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition--wasn't a minor ethical lapse. It's hard to think of any act more certain to knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached...
That was a big mistake. The lurid stories that ensued about Internet baby buying provoked Prime Minister Tony Blair to condemn the affair as "absolutely deplorable" and to promise quick reforms in British law. Follow-up stories painted the Kilshaws as difficult neighbors with a dirty, animal-filled house that they had once had "ghostbusted" by investigators of the paranormal. They were accused of being so eager to argue about the babies with the Allens through international TV hookups as to neglect them in real life. The stories were one-sided, but the Kilshaws hurt themselves by trumpeting their conversations...