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SENTENCED. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 64, California Republican who resigned from Congress and pleaded guilty last fall to taking $2.4 million in bribes; to eight years and four months in prison, the longest term ever given a Congressman; by a federal judge in San Diego. At his sentencing, Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam vet, tearfully said, "After years of service to my country, I made a wrong turn...
...practices of competing institutions. In 2000, Princeton University’s 18-person presidential search committee included three students and five faculty members, while Stanford University’s 14-person committee included two students and six faculty members. The most recent presidential searches at Columbia University and Duke University also included both students and faculty on the formal recommending body. Harvard stood as a lone holdout in its own 2000 presidential search. It’s committee: six members of the Corporation and three members of the Overseers...
...contrast, current criminal probes of lawmakers are expanding rapidly. Like the Abramoff probe, the investigation into former Republican Representative Randy ?Duke? Cunningham from San Diego is also widening. Last week, defense contractor Mitchell Wade of MZM, Inc., pleaded guilty to supplying more than $1 million of the $2.4 million in bribes Cunningham previously admitted taking in a scheme that touches Defense Department officials and two other members of Congress. A Defense Department spokesman tells TIME that "there is an ongoing review by appropriate organizations within the Department" as to whether the Cunningham- and MZM-linked intelligence contracts would have compromised...
...year-old Keohane, a political scientist by training and currently a visiting scholar at Princeton University, raised more than $2 billion for Duke during her decade as president...
...self-proclaimed non-believer when it comes to miracles, Archenti sinks further into doubt about the candidate and about himself. He cannot complete his investigation until he learns Cambiati's darkest mystery. And for that, he must befriend the powerful duke's fetching and bewitching daughter. At the same time, he must keep an eye on his employers back at the Vatican--or as he calls them: "an impotent harem of bickering eunuchs...