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Krzyzewski's ease in the boardroom wins him praise, but critics claim that it was his silence in the wake of Duke's lacrosse scandal this past March that spoke volumes. Three lacrosse players have been charged with raping a woman at a raunchy team party, costing the team its season and hurting Duke's image. Where was Coach K, who serves as special assistant to the university's president and is the most visible man in Durham, N.C.? Krzyzewski says he worked behind the scenes to help the school handle the crisis. But publicly, he stayed...
Fourteen years after Princess Diana's good friend James Gilbey committed the lèse majesté of referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According...
...quotable coach also came under fire for his silence after the Duke lacrosse scandal broke in March. Three student lacrosse players have been charged with raping a woman at a raunchy team party, costing the team its season, and the university a hit to its prestigious image. Where was Coach K, in title a special assistant to the president, the most visible man in town...
...companions - is well out of range for farmers in Yunnan or Shandong provinces, who make an average of $335 per year, $100 less than Xue paid to buy Victor as a puppy. "What happened in the provinces would never happen in Shanghai," says Xue. If anything, China's dog scandal only underlines the disparity between China's urban rich, with their well-groomed pooches, and their largely powerless country cousins. My Bhutanese friend can only hope that neither he, nor any of his friends, will get reincarnated as a rural Chinese...
...Leveraging the Lobbyist Scandal For a congressional candidate, a presidential visit during campaign season is a sought-after opportunity...