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Scorsese By Ebert By Roger Ebert The University of Chicago Press; 314 pages...
...Though federal prosecutors did not press charges on these allegations, and the NBA just released an independent report that refutes Donaghy's claims, the damage to referee credibility was done. "We were shaken," says Crawford, who himself came under fire in the spring of 2007 for jawing with and unnecessarily ejecting San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan from a game. (Crawford was suspended for the 2007 playoffs, and he now admits that he "overreacted" with Duncan.) Crawford, describing the blow to his profession's reputation, says, "It was almost like you were in shock. You find yourself constantly defending yourself...
...allowing organized crime - which flourished under the reign of autocratic President Franjo Tudjman, who led Croatia's independence struggle - to grow even more rampantly after the country's transition to democracy. "The authorities are obviously incompetent to stand up to organized crime," said opposition MP Vladimir Sisljagic at a press conference on Monday. "This situation is a result of 18 years of turning a blind eye to war profiteering and gangsterism...
...with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is writing Six Days That Shook the World for Penguin Press, which examines the week when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought and AIG received a government bailout...
...Kilpatrick eventually brokered a secret deal that awarded the officers $8.4 million in public money in exchange for their silence about the extramarital affair. Four months later, local media outlets used Michigan's Freedom of Information Act to obtain all relevant trial documents and, in January, the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from the more than 14,000 intimate text messages sent between Beatty and Kilpatrick via city-issued pagers. In March, the local county prosecutor charged Kilpatrick and Beatty with official misconduct, perjury and obstruction of justice. In July, police added another charge to Kilpatrick's record after...