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When Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada, purchased the Cup for $50 in 1893, he never anticipated that a goalie would use it as a popcorn bowl in a movie theater, like the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur did over a century later. Stanley bought the Cup as a prize for the best amateur hockey club in Canada. The NHL took control of it in 1926, but the tradition of abuse started at the outset. In 1905, a member of the Ottawa Silver Seven drop-kicked the Cup into a canal. The boys kept the party going...
...Over the last year, the Spitzer family has endured intense public scrutiny after it was disclosed that the former governor spent as much as $80,000 on prostitutes over a period of several years...
...Wall Street Journal editorial leading up the 2006 gubernatorial election accused him of “denying, dissembling and developing convenient cases of amnesia,” in the face of accusations of abuse in office as attorney general. A 2007 New Yorker feature labeled the then-newly elected Governor Spitzer as an “aggressive personality with an ambitious agenda...
...During the time that he was [attorney general] he ruffled a lot of feathers, and there were certain groups that felt he was overzealous in his prosecutions, and overaggressive as governor [when] he dealt with Republicans,” Darwin said. “But in all the settings I’ve seen him, I wouldn’t say he has only been ambitious, but rather an empathic and generous...
...this morning on how, exactly, the U.S. will do that, or what "the medium term" means. That's what the Chinese leadership wants to know, though, and they no doubt started asking later in the day, when Geithner met with Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the China's central bank...