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...have enough expensive, aging stars, they finally succeeded this past week in acquiring Randy Johnson, who will be one of the top five pitchers in the AL but will earn a whopping $48 million from New York. Johnson will be 44 years old by the time his contract ends...
Unlike the Washington bigwigs he has made a career of talking about, Armstrong Williams fesses up when caught red- handed. "My judgment was not the best," the conservative pundit admitted after USA Today uncovered a Department of Education contract paying him $240,000 to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind law on his talk show, The Right Side, and in other TV appearances. The contract required him to "regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts" and to encourage other journalists to talk...
Williams is paying for his journalistic sins. His weekly syndicated newspaper column was terminated last Friday. But the Bush Administration appears unfazed. Education Department officials called the contract "a permissible use of taxpayer funds." This despite two recent Government Accountability Office rulings that the Administration broke antipropaganda laws when it disguised promotional spots--on federal drug policy and the new Medicare prescription-drug law-- as TV-news segments. --By Perry Bacon...
Mfume stepped down as president on Jan. 1, citing personal reasons, but sources close to the organization told TIME that the N.A.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted against renewing his contract. The issue was nepotism, which came to a head when Mfume allegedly appointed his son's girlfriend as director of corporate and foundation development in June 2003. The incident followed other actions benefitting friends of Mfume's and was the deciding factor, says Meyers, a longtime critic of the organization. Mfume declined to speak about the allegations...
...helped launch a company in 1937 that created Dollman and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Later he created the Spirit, a witty antihero with no superpowers who roamed back alleys in search of bad guys, and wrote one of the first graphic novels, about a Bronx, N.Y., slumlord, A Contract with God. "My interest is not the superhero," he said, "but the little man who struggles to survive in the city...