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...month after an accounting scandal made headlines, the telecommunications company, once the second largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy. Several WorldCom executives subsequently pleaded guilty to fraud charges, with CEO Bernard Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison. The company emerged from bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WorldCom Inc. | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...three wrestlers were not the only casualties in the marijuana scandal: On September 8, in order to take responsibility for the unprecedented upheaval, JSA chairman Kitanoumi, who had also been the stable master of Hakurozan, resigned his post and was replaced by Musashigawa, another former yokozuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal in Sumo Land | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...name is the butt of a joke, the source of a laugh and the title of a scandal.' JACK ABRAMOFF, former Republican lobbyist, before being sentenced to four years in prison for corruption and tax evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.' KWAME KILPATRICK, the city's former mayor, resigning after a sex-and-misconduct scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...always been a green guy ... ever since I read Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. Obviously, we have to have energy here, but why we don't have alternative energy, like Brazil, is a scandal. As far as what I can do, I have to travel quickly, therefore I use transportation that uses energy, but I hardly use gas anymore. I'll walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bill O'Reilly | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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