Word: courtelis
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...Donaghy made certain that the stench of corruption went beyond his own bad behavior, crashing this year's dream finals between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers with scandalous accusations. Before Game 3 of that series, he alleged in a court filing that two refs conspired to fix the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings. Donaghy claimed he wasn't the only rogue referee, as he described a corrupt culture in which refs would play tennis with coaches, ask players for autographs, and accept free meals and gifts from coaches and team officials...
...refs have long ignored the rule that requires them to wear black shoes with no white Nike swooshes or other logos. Johnson will be scoping their feet. Over the past few years, officials have relied on arena security to let them know when a team is going on the court to warm up, ignoring the edict that they stand near the sidelines before the players make their way out. This year, there will be no more lounging in the locker room. "He's made it perfectly clear," says Crawford. "Here are the work rules, buddy." To the military...
...look at the record of the recent past, every case on national security, for example, has been divided 5-4. Abortion is up for grabs. Affirmative action and racial justice are [major] issues. The longest a president can serve is a tiny fraction of the [average Supreme Court justice's tenure]. The amount of power that the Supreme Court has is much greater, for better or for worse. We're one vote away from flip-flopping on the law of the land on issue after issue...
...lawyer and ex-college football captain first came under fire in 2003, when two former police officers filed a civil lawsuit claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of Kilpatrick's former bodyguards. During the court proceedings, one of the officers revealed Kilpatrick's affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black...
...cease-fire and "using all means deemed necessary" to protect civilians and improve security. In that role, it has shown an eagerness to fight, even using helicopter gunships; it has taken sides with the government; and it has pursued and arrested war criminals wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Many U.N. insiders regard MONUC almost as a rogue operation, employing the kind of methods normally used by the U.S. in Iraq and inappropriate to U.N. peacekeepers...