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This was hardly the first time Sharpton has lied to avoid having to face the consequences of his race baiting. In 1988, Sharpton participated in a fraudulent rape and kidnapping charge with racial overtones (the victim was a young black woman, the accused were a group of white men) and claimed to have evidence to prove that an assistant district attorney, Steve Pagones, had participated in the alleged crime. When it became clear that the accusation was false, Sharpton dug in his heels. He said, "We stated openly that Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney...
...same, Wigand, who now runs a one-man antismoking foundation, Smoke Free Kids, is happy with the film. He got Roth and Mann to obscure details about his children and to avoid showing any of the characters smoking cigarettes; but Roth says Wigand didn't try to intervene at all in the way he was depicted. "When Jeffrey read the portrayal, warts and all, he didn't ask us to change anything." That includes an invented scene in which Wigand appears to be on the brink of suicide. Wigand says he "never got that despondent" but is "very comfortable with...
...mishandling law is flawed. Says a veteran espionage-law specialist: "If you prosecuted people for leaving classified documents in a men's room or a cab or at home, you'd end up prosecuting every GS-7 clerk and secretary in the government." As a matter of policy, to avoid negative court decisions that could make it harder to try full-fledged espionage cases, the Justice Department has rarely invoked the statute...
Transplanting a homegrown sex business onto distant shores will doubtless prove risky. Gold hopes to avoid offending local sensibilities by going the franchise route. "It helps us to have someone who understands the local culture," she says. So far, Ann Summers' Dublin store is the only one that has drawn opposition. Downtown merchants--saying a sex shop, no matter how posh, doesn't belong on a main shopping avenue--tried to get it moved to a side street. But the opposing retailers could not find any legal reason to keep the shop off O'Connell Street, and the company turned...
...Last December's Iraq Liberation Act commits Washington to supply $97 million in military aid to the Iraqi opposition. But that opposition is so small and fiercely divided along personality, ethnic and ideological lines - some key groups boycotted the New York meeting to avoid being tainted as U.S. pawns - as to make it something of a fiction in the real strategic equation. The military training that begins in Florida this week involves teaching four men, in civilian attire, such topics as the role of the military in a democracy. Not exactly menacing stuff, but it may reflect what's being...