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...trial for allegedly taking bribes from now defunct Nara Merchant Bank. Last week, prosecutors said they will summon former presidential secretary Choi Do Sul for questioning in a widening political-finance scandal. (It was the allegations against Choi, who resigned in August, that prompted Roh's surprise plea on Friday for the people's trust.) Prosecutors suspect Choi collected $1 million from a political slush fund allegedly set up by the giant SK conglomerate. Choi, who has denied the charges, is a high school friend of Roh and is so close to the President that he is known...
Others have pointed the finger at Adams’s very own man-about campus, Robert Gupta ’04. The theory holds that after four consecutive days without a direct mention in The Crimson, Gupta may have laid the loads in a desperate plea for attention. “It couldn’t have been me” says Gupta, “I really don’t have time to eat, let alone...anyway, I really appreciate the opportunity to clear my name in print. If there are any other allegations?...
...Ashcroft owe his job to the administration he is investigating; he is also indebted to Karl Rove, whom he hired for three of his campaigns in Missouri. Moreover, Ashcroft has proven his willingness to politicize the office of Attorney General by interfering in local courts in order to curb plea bargaining and encourage the use of the death penalty, as well as by personally campaigning for the USA Patriot...
...movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help him end his torment without risking prosecution under French laws prohibiting assisted suicide. He repeated that plea in a book, I Ask You for the Right to Die. Though police say Humbert may face homicide charges, Justice Minister Dominique Perben urged "the largest degree of humanity be applied" in the case. The ordeal sparked new calls...
...Ashcroft will announce the details of a frightening breach of airline safety, a case in which hazardous material was illegally put on a plane run by Emery Airlines, a cargo airline that went out of business in 2001 (A plea agreement in the matter has been reached with the Justice Department). Though Ashcroft may not explicitly link hazmat and terrorists, aviation specialists say the frightening prospect is that terrorists will get their hands on hazmat and try and to get it on cargo planes...