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...down Mount Auburn in my orange vest, a friend of mine eagerly pointed out that I was being trendy by wearing the "Official Color of the Millennium." Yes, my friends, orange is the official color of Y2K. And no one knows why. Surely, the spokesperson for orange didn't bribe the Official Millennial Committee (though I have a feeling that this committee is helmed by the Gap CEO who made orange trendy in the first place). If anyone knows how orange was chosen as the most important color of 1000 years, please drop me a line. I'm sure...
...House Science Committee chair James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.), Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) and others want to know is, has Rubin been engaging in "threatening and harassing" telephone calls and e-mails to the residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste-treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, BILLY PAYNE, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, Billy Payne, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit...
...stealing the funds for the upkeep of soldiers or even the barracks provided for them. Ivan, a former senior officer who suffered multiple concussions from artillery in Chechnya, explains that he could not obtain a disability pension because he did not have the several thousand dollars for the bribe that a military medical commission demanded to process his application...