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...says he was following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who routinely used the slush fund to finance election campaigns, to bribe opposition politicians and to invest for personal profit. The real fallout could come if prosecutors discover that Kim Young-sam, elected in 1992 as an anti-graft crusader, accepted money from Roh. But although the president insists he has taken "not a single cent" from Roh's funds, most Koreans seem to think he's lying: public opinion polls show that 74 percent believe he took money from Roh during the elections, and 70 percent think...
...late Philippines dictator after she was sworn into office by Chief Justice Andres Narvasa, the judge who helped unseat her husband from the presidency in 1983 . Best known for her shoe collection, the former first lady -- who is free on bail while appealing a 24-year sentence for graft -- exploited her flair for the impossible by winning a three-way race to represent her native province of Leyte by a landslide 33,000 votes five months ago. Election officials had ruled that Mrs. Marcos was not a legal resident of the province and refused to let her take her seat...
...quite lucid on the subject of Rousseau's urinary tract, for instance. Commenting on Rousseau's fear that a piece of a broken catheter had lodged there, Kennedy writes, "but it makes a certian kind of sense that Rousseau, starting with a lifelong urinary problem, would then graft the fantasy of a baby inside his penis onto his illness...
...aorta, the critical vessel which carries blood from the heart. Developing painlessly and often undetected, aneurysms can burst without warning and cause death. The current surgery to deal with aortic aneurysm is very complicated: doctors open the chest and replace the fragile portion of the artery with a graft from another one in the body. The new experimental device, basically a cylindrical patch that reinforces the weakened area, can be positioned in the aorta through a thin tube inserted into the groin area and guided up to the chest. If proven as effective as the surgery, the device, currently being...
...tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza Italy, or Let's Go, Italy, party to victory in March, largely on promises to clean up widespread government corruption. But the combination of anti-graft prosecutors focusing on bribery allegations involving Berlusconi companies and constant bickering within his coalition have brought the new government to the verge of disinteg