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...second woman, a high-ranking official in Martin County, directly north of Palm Beach County, reportedly also had an affair with Mahoney while he was in office. On Wednesday, ABC News reported allegations that Mahoney went out of his way to help the woman secure a $3.2 million hurricane-cleanup reimbursement from FEMA. (Mahoney's representative responded that the Congressman had helped many counties in Florida get reimbursed by Washington for disaster-recovery expenses, and that Martin County had been seeking funding prior to Mahoney's election.) Republicans have also accused leading Democrats of covering up whatever knowledge they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahoney's Florida District Has Sex-Scandal Déjà Vu | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...week, the financial crisis of 2008 changed everything - and now comes the cleanup: if the Administration's $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan is approved by Congress, the United States will see changes to its political economy that were unimaginable a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Financial Crisis, a Cleanup That Changes Everything | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...power is structured, it could even postpone new federal spending on health-care reform or infrastructure improvements, or hasten the need for increased taxes and deep spending cuts. A similar challenge faced incoming President George H.W. Bush in 1989 when his Administration had to oversee a $100 billion cleanup of poorly regulated savings and loans that were weakened or simply crashed after the go-go 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Financial Crisis, a Cleanup That Changes Everything | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...picturesque canals to the semipublic property company NV Stadsgoed for $37 million. Officials immediately closed down the buildings' 51 brothel windows, and installed in 16 of them young fashion designers, who pay a token monthly rent of $220. That's just one small piece of a much more ambitious cleanup initiative. A wall map in City Hall shows a block-by-block plan that aims to halve the size of the red-light district over the next few years by shutting scores of brothels, according to Deputy Mayor Lodewijk Asscher, who has spearheaded the campaign. "People think just because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Versa: Amsterdam Cleans Up | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...critics of the government's cleanup argue that shutting brothels will simply lead prostitutes to become streetwalkers, leaving them still more vulnerable to abuse. "If you want to help these women, this is the not the way to do it," says Mariska Majoor, who worked as a teenage prostitute during the 1980s and now runs the neighborhood's Prostitution Information Center. She and others are pushing for more public-funded campaigns to inform prostitutes of their legal rights against pimps and traffickers, and to help those who want out to find other jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Versa: Amsterdam Cleans Up | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

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