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...Buck Naked, which ends the record with a stirring plea for a return to innocence, that sums up the cathartic quality of David Byrne. Byrne's head and heart seem to collaborate perfectly as he sings, "Running naked like the day I was born/ We're all naked in the land where I come from/ I'm a long long way from New York City now/ We're all naked if you turn us inside out." Combining giddiness with gravity, David Byrne manages to make angst...
Ties had already been strained by a battle of wills between Clinton Administration officials and Prosecutor-General De Greiff, who had pursued plea-bargain deals with major traffickers, offering them as little as three years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas. U.S. officials denounced the program, and in response cut off a scheme in which they shared evidence with Colombian prosecutors. More recently, the Clinton Administration suspended an operation in which AWACS surveillance aircraft identified for Colombian law enforcement small planes thought to be carrying drugs; in what was seen as a conciliatory move, the U.S. last week announced...
Next comes the settlement stage and the big payout and the nolo plea, along with the letter to shareholders that often winds up in the papers as a full- page ad. The letter writer, usually the CEO, refers to "problems" and "mistakes" and emphasizes that these mistakes were in the past and entirely the work of rogue individuals. The company announces concrete steps to ensure that whatever they haven't admitted to doing will never happen again...
...deal Rostenkowski could not see brokered to his satisfaction was the plea bargain that his lawyer Robert Bennett struck with the prosecution team headed by U.S. Attorney Eric Holder Jr. Rostenkowski would have got off with a fine and a six-month prison term in exchange for resigning from the House and pleading guilty to a single felony count. After two days of discussion with family and close associates, Rostenkowski decided to turn down the plea. Says former Illinois Representative Marty Russo, a close friend: "He just sat down one night and said, 'Wait a minute. I didn...
House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski found himself in the midst of an intensifying maelstrom of speculation over whether he would accept a plea bargain -- and prison time -- in a federal corruption case. Democrats fear his departure from the key committee could leave health reform without a guiding hand...