Word: insiderism
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The headlines have, in recent months, popped up with shocking regularity. First it was financial aid officers getting perks from student loan companies. Then top college and federal officials had profited handsomely after receiving stock in companies they monitored or suggested to students. Now everything related to the college loan...
Although studios are courting the top fanboys now, it wasn't always thus. AICN created a sport of snagging scoops--reviews from test screenings of unfinished films, scripts, artwork--that put Hollywood on the defensive. All that's over now. Indeed, the kind of insider status some enjoy may threaten...
Of course, beyond the doctrinal front, plenty has changed these past two years for the Bavarian prelate and Vatican insider. He has become a world leader and has been learning lessons in tempering his ideas with public relations, having given controversial speeches and been confronted with fiery inter-faith conflict...
Of course, a switch might disadvantage the Democratic legislative agenda and please Republicans, but it is an opportunity to transcend party-politics—an area Lieberman likes to claim as his specialty. Realigning with the correct party would make a powerful statement against the culture of self-aggrandizement and...
Witnesses say they informed IRS investigators that Gerber had begun storing cash in dormant bank accounts that were unlikely to be examined during a routine audit. Money transfers out of the university system were masked by fictional purchases of equipment. One piece of machinery was billed at $500,000, despite...