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...life and power. From the perspective of Viet Nam in the late '60s, some of Kennedy's rhetoric sounded incautious, jingoistic and dangerous. The Arthurian knight talked about building bomb shelters. The extravagance of all that the hagiologists claimed for him now seemed to make him a fraud. His performance on civil rights came to seem tepid and reluctant and excessively political. Stories about his vigorous sex life, including an alleged affair with the girlfriend of a Mafia don, brought into question not only his private morals but his common sense. At last, the revisionists wondered whether...
Although no one in the government has accused Harvard of fraud or wrongdoing, in both cases the University, like most other colleges, has been guilty of a "systematic abuse" of loosely-worded regulations and hazy guidelines. Within both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), officials have moved in recent years to tighten rules and close loopholes--moves that have affected Harvard's purse strings...
...brought its suit shortly before the expiration of the three-year period in which the agency can challenge an estate filing. Charles Sabin, a Newhouse attorney who had been negotiating with the agency, termed the fraud charge "shocking and uncalled for" and "an obvious, crude tactic to force a settlement, on patently unfair terms, by intimidation...
...grand jury has indicted 24 people connected with U.S. Oil and Gas, including Gurdon Wolfson, the company's owner and president, and Larry Waxman, its executive director, for fraud and conspiracy. All pleaded not guilty; if convicted, they face possible fines of $10,000 and three years in prison. In addition, Federal District Judge William Hoeveler, acting on a civil suit filed by the Federal Trade Commission, last week issued an injunction to prevent U.S. Oil and Gas from continuing its fraudulent sales. He froze the company's assets and in effect put it out of business. Said...
...Newman, offering "a nuclear war-prevention kit." "I plan to send in for one of those kits," writes Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., "and if Mr. Newman doesn't send me an MX missile, I'm going to report him to the Postal Service people for fraud...