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...West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today the yakuza like to think of themselves as romantic outlaws, bound together by a blood oath of loyalty, who never harm the innocent...
...They told waiting reporters, who had been tipped off about the visit by senatorial aides, that they had learned of "new allegations of illegality" against Lance. The Senators confirmed that the committee staff had interviewed convicted embezzler Billy Lee Cambell, who had claimed vaguely (and apparently never under oath) that Lance was "part of" the thefts at Georgia's Calhoun First National Bank when Lance was its president or chairman...
...course, are presidential problems. The men and women working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are only as good as their boss allows them to be. Yet there are levels of competence and honor that each person controls. Watergate cried out for one bright young man to remember his Boy Scout oath and walk out of the White House. None did. The Carter crew have better hearts and souls. But if there is one duty of a staffer, it is to spot trouble far off and, if necessary, make unpleasant noises to convince the President of the danger. None...
...defied Hitler in the last free speech given in Germany's parliament; while vacationing in Eutin, West Germany. In 1933, when Hitler made his first address to the legislature, Brecht, who represented the largest state, made the reply. Brecht reminded the newly appointed Chancellor of Hitler's oath to abide by the constitution and the law of the land. Hitler stalked out of the meeting and four days later dismissed Brecht. Emigrating to America, Brecht joined the "university in exile," a haven for refugee professors at New York's New School for Social Research where he taught...
Comptroller Heimann concluded that "there is some documentary and circumstantial evidence suggesting the possibility that a 20% compensating balance from NBG was a condition of the loan to Mr. Lance from MHT [Manufacturers Hanover Trust]." But he also found that all the officials involved, including Lance, had denied under oath that any such deal had been struck. On balance, said the report, "there appears to be no violation of any applicable laws or regulations...