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Tricky Question. Abroad, he was better informed. In fact, Dorsey himself in 1966 and 1971 ordered payments totaling about $4 million to politicians in South Korea, where Gulf has sizable operations. The question of whether to pay was tricky, because the line was so fine between bribery on Gulfs part...
Pornography is hard to find. Topless and bottomless dancing are strictly forbidden. Thus it came as an extraordinary shock when a county grand jury indicted Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin, 42, the commander of the vice squad and six other cops last month for charges ranging from bribery and...
Ever since James R. Hoffa disappeared on July 30, a prime suspect in the case has been Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 58, onetime head of Teamster Local 560 in Union City, N.J., who still controls that fief while living in Hallandale, Fla. Provenzano and Hoffa, the domineering president of the...
Vice? Extortion? Modern Americans are bound to be startled by such references. We are trained to think of our ancestors as good and godly because they achieved so much. By comparison with the founders, we see ourselves as a sorry lot. In corner taverns and corners of universities, at church...
To find a new program, to build national community, and to develop some common moral language is not guaranteed to produce good people. Such activities will not eliminate evil, bring about personal moral regeneration, save souls, gladden all sad hearts or bring in the kingdom of God, Utopia or even...