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...leveled against him - would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have been playing any kind of quid pro quo shenanigans with him." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...know. And we still go. Worse, we take our children - even our friends' children. What kind of maniacs are we? Answer: We're incorrigible gamblers. Addicts, to judge by the frequency with which we go. But judge for yourself whether you think we're being reckless with the odds we're playing with. The chances of being attacked by a shark while swimming in the ocean, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, are 1 in 11.5 million. The chances of a fatal attack are 1 in 264.1 million. Both odds decrease somewhat...
...political career that spanned all of India's 61 years as an independent nation, Jyoti Basu, 95, was the face of India's Communist Party. He was epitome of a certain kind of leftist - urbane, westernized and a skilled power broker - and his death on Jan. 17 has prompted eulogizing from every corner of Indian public life...
...phone by the New York Times said the assault was in reaction to the government proposal to "reconcile" with and "reintegrate" Taliban fighters into mainstream society. "We are ready to fight and we have the strength to fight and nobody from the Taliban side is ready to make any kind of deal," another Taliban representative, Zabihullah Mujahid, told the Times. "The world community and the international forces are trying to buy the Taliban and that is why we are showing that we are not for sale." (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
...irony. Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper called it a "humiliating blow to Gallic pride," while the Wall Street Journal said that France had gotten a "dose of its own medicine." But the French may have been less guilty of applying double standards than of using the same kind of savvy marketing strategies that have allowed new wine-producing countries like New Zealand to give France a run for its money in recent years. (See pictures of Paris expanding...