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...sound-bite-size portions of predictable punditry. Back in 1972 when he was covering the McGovern campaign, Greider was one of Timothy Crouse's original Boys on the Bus. While an editor of the Washington Post, he prompted David Stockman's explosive 1981 confessions that Reaganomics was a fraud. A dogged reporter undeterred by smoke-and-mirrors complexity, Greider plumbed the depths of the Federal Reserve in his 1987 best seller, Secrets of the Temple...
...these people see themselves as morally normal -- and playwright Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's leading comedist, plainly thinks they are. Although the corruption depicted in A Small Family Business embraces fraud, the Mafia and murder, it takes place in bland, beige, suburban houses where the residents are preoccupied with recipes, hemlines and their dogs. And while the accents are recognizably British, the decor and, by implication, the bad behavior would seem right at home in Middle America...
...sophomore resident of Eliot House pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of credit card fraud, University police said...
...SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE FATE OF American mias has made little progress in its inquiry into those who prey on families of missing service personnel. Chairman John Kerry promised that the committee would probe possible fraud and corruption by entrepreneurs who collect huge sums from families but have yet to find a live MIA. One reason for the stalemate: ex- Congressman BILL HENDON, who collected tens of thousands of dollars as an MIA activist. Hendon, who should be a subject of the investigation, has been put on the committee staff by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the vice...
...that suit, the plaintiffs--who asked inexcess of $20 million in damage--charged Avenuewith fraud and breach of contract for failing tocarry out its obligations as the movie'sdistributor, resulting in the film's poor boxoffice returns...