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...blame. It began in the mid-'90s with David Chang, a Korean-American businessman who wanted help getting money that North Korea owed him. Chang has woven extravagant tales of giving cash, suits, antiques and watches to Torricelli in exchange for that help, but Chang is a dubious source. Currently serving time for witness tampering and illegal contributions to Torricelli's campaigns, he is prone to rants like accusing the fbi of planting evidence. In June prosecutors declined to pursue charges against Torricelli but referred the matter to the Senate Ethics Committee. It dismissed many of Chang's claims, accepted...
...behaving itself, Sinn Fein dismissed the spying charges as a plot against it by British security agents determined to scupper the Good Friday agreement. While the I.R.A. has broadly stuck to its cease-fire where the British army and police are concerned, it has been implicated in various other dubious adventures, such as a series of vigilante attacks on street criminals in Belfast and a plot to import handguns from Florida. Three I.R.A. suspects accused of teaching terror tactics to Colombian guerrillas go on trial in Bogot? soon, while operatives are also suspected of carrying out an audacious break...
...12th annual Ig Nobel Prize awards ceremony honored those whose dubious achievements “could not or should not be reproduced” in a chaotic blend of great minds, modest irreverence and outrageousness...
...also found out that my assistant principal tread on dubious legal grounds when she emasculated my high school yearbook a little more than a year ago, though if I had known before, I doubt she would have been receptive to any protest. Even in California, where students enjoy most First Amendment protections on campus, the law is complicated enough for administrators to routinely brush it off with sloppy legal arguments that rarely get tested in court. When a judge does rule, the administrators almost invariably lose...
...eponymous messenger Jonah, who with his fellow vegetables embarks on the marine adventure of his life. But if air-conditioned theaters couldn’t coax kids out over the summer for TV show-based movies like The Powerpuff Girls and Hey Arnold! The Movie, it’s dubious how Jonah will fare on the big screen despite its generous dose of CGI effects and its, well, motivational subject matter...