Word: bargainer
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...accepting a plea bargain and agreeing to pay a $10,000 fine for misleading the FBI, former housing secretary Henry Cisneros has inadvertently added a moral postscript to the already ponderous Clinton-Lewinsky file: While good politicians sometimes pay for telling lies, the truly great ones never do. Cisneros, who served as HUD chief in the first Clinton administration, has at least a few things in common with his former boss. Both men inspired great expectations early in their careers, and both were investigated tirelessly by independent counsels over allegations of extramarital affairs ? and their inevitable aftershocks...
Shopping for designer clothing at bargain rates usually requires long drives to far-off malls and outlets or sorting through messy racks and bins at department stores. Now there's Bluefly. Not even a year old, Bluefly.com is already a leading Internet retailer, and it specializes in the $27 billion-a-year discounted-designer-clothing market. In the past three months, more than 5 million bargain hunters looking for easier ways to shop 24/7 have visited the site, many attracted by the company's ads in magazines like Vogue and GQ or prompted by links from Women.com AOL and other...
Samuel Sheinbein is one hot potato latke. First, the Maryland teenager put a strain on U.S.-Israel relations by fleeing a murder charge back home and taking advantage of an obscure section of Israeli law to evade extradition. Now, the New York Times reports, he?s accepted a plea bargain with Israeli prosecutors that will see him serve a 24-year sentence that could have him out on parole in 14 years. While that might be a stiff penalty for an 18-year-old in Israel?s courts, it pales before the life-without-parole sentence he faced in Maryland...
...sends Israel every year. While it?s unlikely that the issue will seriously disrupt the U.S.-Israel relationship, it has spurred efforts in Israel to repeal the 1977 law that forbids the extradition of Israelis to stand trial abroad. One American for whom Sheinbein?s plea bargain may be particularly painful: Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison after his conviction in 1985 on charges of spying for Israel. Israel has been quietly pressing for Pollard?s release since last year?s Wye River talks, but the spectacle of a U.S. teen getting lenient treatment...
People shop daily at an indoor market in the center of town. Amidst the whirl of reeling flies and screaming children, individuals bargain for just-killed, unplucked chickens and freshly-baked pan dulce (sweet bread) and giant bags of beans. Young street boys who want to sell you candy or shine your shoes approach you continuously. You see indigenous women dragging overflowing bundles of produce, while they have babies strapped to their chest and suckling at the breast...