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...DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. As Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger presided over a $2 trillion peacetime military buildup?the biggest in U.S. history?and backed the controversial, never-implemented Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. After finding himself at odds with Reagan's arms-control negotiations with Mikhail...
...RESIGNED. SEIJI MAEHARA, 43, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the country's largest opposition party, to take "full responsibility" for a scandal involving a colleague's unfounded bribery allegations; along with several other party members; in Tokyo. DPJ lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata admitted last month that he couldn't verify his accusation that Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie had bribed the son of the Liberal Democratic Party's secretary-general. "I hope this will renew the public's faith and rebuild the party," Maehara said upon stepping down...
...separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...
DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual veteran public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. As Defense Secretary under Reagan, the anti-Soviet hard-liner presided over a $2 trillion peacetime military buildup--the biggest in U.S. history--and backed Reagan's controversial, never implemented Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. After finding himself at odds with Reagan...
Ultimately Rao is counting on his students to create a more genuine ethic of business, one that would not allow a scandal like Enron to take root. He likes to imagine what a generation of other-centered businesspeople could do for the world. "In about a decade, my students will be in leadership positions," he says with a satisfied smile. "And they will ask, What can I do to make things better...