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...said to have given appointments to her lovers, three to four every day with intervals of a couple of hours in between." Perhaps none of this was true, but it added to her mystique, as did rumors of her bisexuality. Even her death had a whiff of scandal to it; Dalmia says it may have resulted from a botched abortion...
...Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi. Three weeks ago he participated for the second time at the annual Bilderberg meeting, an invitation-only gathering of the international business and political élite. Elkann also got high marks for his firm - and unusually public - response to the recent match-fixing scandal consuming Italy's top football club, Juventus, which the Agnelli family has owned since 1923. At the team's first match after evidence emerged that Juventus' former general manager Luciano Moggi had allegedly pressured referees, Elkann gathered reporters at the stadium to gracefully, but clearly, voice his no-confidence...
...charges of gunrunning for the I.R.A. (he was acquitted). As Taoiseach, his economic policies helped kindle Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" boom, but his last years in office were dogged by allegations of insider trading, conflicts of interest and tax evasion; he resigned in 1992 amid a phone-tapping scandal. In his farewell speech, borrowing from Othello, Haughey told the Irish parliament: "I have done the state some service and they know it." Numbers 7 Number of people whose deaths were attributed to excessive video-game playing last year, including a South Korean man who died after almost 50 straight hours...
...changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid us (though...
...return of art works and artifacts from Western museums to the countries where they originally belonged - have lately been on the defensive, derided as cultural imperialists for arguing that art is better served (and can be more safely guarded) when it can be seen by millions. But a growing scandal over a theft of centuries-old artifacts from a small Turkish museum has surely made them feel vindicated...