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Liston, who supported a term-bill fee hike of $10, allegedly tried to rig the referendum. But Liston's version of his actions in support of the hike are more spirited than sinister...
...here's a happy scene: a dozen glamorous models wearing cherry-red smocks are cooing contentedly in a dim room, hunched over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing...
...exactly hardened criminals here," says the TV producer testifying before Congress at the end of Quiz Show. "We're in show business." By this point in Robert Redford's critically acclaimed new movie, no one can miss the irony of that line. The people who conspired to rig the big-money quiz shows in the 1950s, according to the film, were criminals all right -- and not despite but because of the fact that they were in show business. These connivers didn't just feed a few answers to favored contestants to boost ratings. They destroyed a nation's innocence...
Because most of the new fields are in inhospitable regions, exploitation costs are huge. In Canada a consortium led by Mobil is investing $4 billion to build and install the world's heaviest -- and costliest -- drilling platform 200 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. The 1.1 million-ton rig, designed to withstand collisions with the giant icebergs that regularly drift through the area, will begin tapping the North Atlantic's 2 billion-bbl. Hibernia field...
...Edwards must have figured that voters were losing patience with his adventures along the frontiers of ethical conduct. Though never found guilty of any crime, he has been the subject of at least 20 criminal investigations and has twice beat charges that he tried, while out of office, to rig the state's program to certify hospitals -- pocketing $1.9 million in the process. During Edwards' 1991 campaign, a closely watched race against former Klansman David Duke, one of his supporters' favorite bumper stickers read, Vote for the Crook. It's Important...