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...often notoriously corrupt political parties. Corruption is the hottest button for Latin voters, and it is biting pols to the left as well, especially Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose re-election prospects next October look dimmer with his party mired in a campaign-finance scandal. Latin American political experts say Bush should focus on rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas Shannon as the new Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is widely regarded as a positive step, since Shannon, as a career diplomat, is less polarizing...
...even published a list of industries it deemed to be in the strategic national interest. And in Rome, former governor of the Italian central bank Antonio Fazio tried to squash two bids by foreign banks for Italian ones. But his efforts quickly turned to a scandal after the publication of taped phone calls. Fazio finally quit just before Christmas - and one of the foreign bids, by Dutch bank ABN AMRO for Banca Antonveneta, eventually succeeded. Domestic politics remains a temporary risk, says Morgan Stanley's Pereira, but "the forces underlying European M&A trends are much stronger than any episodic...
...said HUDS Spokeswoman Jami M. Snyder.Cabot House, with 89 percent participation, bagged the prize for the second straight semester. Last year’s runner-up, Leverett, placed second again with 57 percent, tying Quincy House.Cabot’s victory this fall came in the wake of a scandal-tainted win last spring, when a group of ingenious, ice cream-craving Cabot residents manipulated the online system to achieve a miraculous 105 percent participation by voting multiple times. Snyder said that even though the students were caught manipulating their cookies (the online kind), an official investigation showed that Cabot...
After a cocaine scandal led Chanel, H&M and Burberry to sever ties with KATE MOSS, the iconically thin supermodel went from rehab to the cover of French Vogue and landed a new contract with Virgin Mobile...
...undercover status at the CIA. But in a conversation at Harvard earlier this month, Woodward hinted that he knows the identity of yet another key player in the case: Robert D. Novak’s original source for his July 2003 column on Plame, which touched off the scandal in the first place.“His source was not in the White House, I don’t believe,” Woodward said of Novak over a private dinner at the Institute of Politics on Dec. 5. He did not indicate what information...