Word: scandalized
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...March 13, when the men's lacrosse team held a party that included underage drinking, black strippers were hired to dance before white males, and racist remarks were shouted into the night. University President Richard Brodhead has created five independent committees to look at broader issues that the scandal uncovered, and one of them will examine the lacrosse program. A search for the coach's replacement has not begun and will not begin until after the committee finishes its study and offers its recommendation. But even then, there is no guarantee that Duke will field a team next year...
Fernández has a record of delivering. During his first term (1996-2000), the D.R. enjoyed the highest growth rate in the Latin American region. His successor and predecessor, Hipólito Mejía, presided over a banking scandal in 2003 that triggered an economic nosedive that wiped out 20% of GDP (imagine $2.8 trillion disappearing in the U.S.) and plunged an additional 1 million Dominicans into poverty. Since retaking the top job 20 months ago, Fernández has put the country back on the mend, restoring macroeconomic stability and business confidence. Last year's growth soared 9.2%, with single-digit...
...country's economic troubles have conveniently handed international donors--who ponied up more than $1 billion to see it through the banking scandal--more leverage to drive reform. Most critical for business is the debilitated electricity sector: 45% of the national utility's receivables go unpaid, requiring a government subsidy of $620 million last year. Such is the bitter fruit of decades of political favoritism, and donors such as the World Bank say they want to see an aggressive--and unprecedented--crackdown on delinquent customers, no matter how, uh, connected they are. "If you don't address the issue...
...barometer of where the D.R. is headed: the upcoming trial of the six alleged masterminds of the so-called BANINTER (Banco Intercontinental) scandal, in which $2.5 billion was looted. For the first time, scions of some of the most élite families will be in the dock. It's a case expected to go to the D.R. Supreme Court, which has been the focus of recent U.S. efforts at judicial reform. The trial may be just as symbolic of the Dominican Republic's future as the new subway is. If the court's justice isn't perceived as fair...
...normal assumption about such indirectness would be that the group is hiding something, and filthy lucre is a staple of the Opus myth. Two rumors about its popularity with John Paul were that it funded the Solidarity trade union and helped bail out the Vatican bank after its 1982 scandal. Poverty is demonstrably not one of Opus' vows. It has a reputation for cultivating the rich or those soon to be, at both élite colleges and its own institutions. (In Latin America many in the church feel that Opus priests served once ascendant oligarchs over the masses.) Even...