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...Persian Gulf, the U.S. has the dubious honor of being virtually by itself in the front line. There is simply no substitute for American leadership: for the time being, the U.S. stands alone in the global power category...
...clock wound down on the first half, Princeton began to gain some offensive momentum. With just over four minutes remaining, the referee awarded Princeton back Betsy White a penalty kick on a very dubious pushing penalty inside the box. Both squads looked on as White booted the ball towards the lower-left corner of the cage. Anticipating the shot, Reilly dove to her right and slapped the ball wide...
...denouncing itself, alleging that "it was an inside job" and pledging, in language that can only be described as Hitleresque, to root out the "human filth" that had typed in the Hitler quote. But a few days later, the magazine went on the offensive and began to push the dubious theory that anti-Review forces were somehow responsible. The usual suspects were trotted out to hint darkly of liberal agents provacateurs who had burrowed their way on to the review's staff. The Wall Street Journal devoted almost an entire editorial page to the defense of the Review...
Jackson sees no conflict between his dual role as TV journalist and partisan political figure. "I'm a communicator," he says. "I'm a public servant, and some of my missions are journalistic." But news executives are more dubious. When Jackson tried to line up a TV backer for his recent Middle East trip, he was turned down by all three major networks and several other news organizations (including Warner Bros. TV), before the magazine show Inside Edition ponied up $125,000. The interview was something of a bust, partly because CBS's Dan Rather got to Saddam first...
...practices to the wind, and before long the S&L was locked into a constant seesaw battle with regulators. Says a former Silverado executive: "They began playing musical chairs with their auditors, and all kinds of things were going on between the federal regulators and management because of the dubious appraisals on property. Silverado would lend a developer $10 million, plus the money he needed to pay the interest on the loan, and then when the developer came back in a year after repaying nothing, they would roll the whole loan over and give him more money...