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...knew Harvard was going to pull that scam," Johnson said of the report. "And now Harvard's going to try to do their best to get [the guards] fired. I feel so bad for the guards right now."Crimson File PhotoAt the center of controversy: STEPHEN G. McCOMBE...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Marshall Report Finds No Discrimination in Guard Unit | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference to deny the allegations, to put the government on notice that Bennett would not let his client simply twist in the wind and to show that Rostenkowski was going to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Superlawyer! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Linked to stamps-for-cash scam by convicted House postmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Aug. 2, 1993 | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator Let's Not Make a Deal | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...debt by the year 2000," reads the | document promisingly, before descending into a laundry list of the obvious. "Combat waste, fraud and abuse . . . Streamline government." Churlishly, the declaration focuses on the programs of the elderly as a source of income for the young. "Social security is a generational scam . . . Raise the retirement age." Does this mean Grandpa should go back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Shots at The Baby Boomers | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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