Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PBHA's reaction to this entire fiasco has often been characterized as petty personality attachments and attacks. Indeed, it is impossible to separate personality from principle in this case. The Director of PBH--now the Dean of Public Service--is the fulcrum between the College and our programs. Greg Johnson and Gail Epstein have refused to allow themselves to become part of a machinery of leverage, following their conscience and keeping programs first. Thus they have been fired...
...WOMAN AND A FEMINIST, I WAS OUTraged to read of nothing but racial issues in articles about the verdict. Before the trial, O.J. Simpson was never much of an advocate for African Americans. Everyone involved in this fiasco did his best to confuse the real issue of domestic violence, the reason Simpson was brought to court the first time. It is obvious that our society still considers domestic violence a private matter rather than an important human-rights issue. KATE SULLIVAN, Plainfield, Vermont...
...grieving friends in more than a dozen phone calls with the First Lady and White House aides shortly after they searched Foster's office. "D'Amato is trying to prove a conspiracy that will be very difficult to prove," Martin L. Gross, author of The Great Whitewater Fiasco: An American Tale of Money, Power and Politics, told TIME Daily. "It seems clear that there was a series of phone calls between Williams, Thomases and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum the morning after Foster's death. And it's also clear that the Whitewater papers were moved by Williams...
Nicholas Leeson, the man accused of singlehandedly destroying one of Britain's oldest investment banking firms, has decided to drop his efforts to avoid returning to Singapore for prosecution. Leeson, 28, fled Singapore for Germany last February when news of his futures trading fiasco was revealed. According to Singaporean investigators, Leeson, who was the general manager of futures trading for Britain's Barings bank in Singapore, wiped out some $1.38 billion of the bank's funds in Asian futures markets. The loss was more than the 232-year-old investment institution could cover. Leeson was charged with eleven counts...
...meaningless without the leader," reads one specimen.) Iraqi officials, however, are outraged that the international community has dismissed the event as a sham. A Ministry of Information statement today, for example, said truculent remarks by State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns "show the level of nervousness and the state of fiasco that the American administration has reached in dealing with Iraq." An opposition group, the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution, is urging foreign journalists to stay home...