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Summers ultimately fell to mounting pressure from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences calling for his resignation. They had assailed his leadership style as well as the resignation of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and his handling of the government fraud scandal implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer...
...toward the grand finale at the Torino Games this Sunday, Canada's finest sought out a little normality by hitting Torino's shopping malls and gorging at local ristoranti. Some players were "itching to play cards--friendly games," says defenseman Adam Foote, in a joking reference to the gambling scandal that has cast a shadow over the team's executive director, Wayne Gretzky. The Canadian superstars also grounded themselves with humility by mixing it up at the Olympic Village. "You're with the best athletes in the world," Canadian forward Brad Richards says of life in the insulated Village. "That...
...firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network of fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output over six albums since the band...
Julian and other public defenders say the intimidation threat is overhyped, that the real reason witnesses don't testify is that the citizens of Baltimore have lost faith in the city's justice system, particularly the scandal-racked police force. A special rapid-reaction unit called a flex squad in the southwestern district was disbanded in December after one of its officers was accused of raping a detained woman before setting her free. A search of the precinct building turned up stashed narcotics and counterfeit DVDs. The charges came after years of rumored misconduct, and critics in the media...
...Tokyo Stock Shock "Living on the Edge" described the scandal about charges that the Japanese Internet company Livedoor was involved in illegal securities manipulation [Jan. 30]. Livedoor's founder and ceo, Takafumie Horie, had kept on holding press conferences because the company caters to naive individual shareholders who put their trust in what they see on TV. The comment by Horie, "What I care about most is the publicity the company gets," held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor...