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...That is no surprise to Italians. Italy has always been a country where corruption is part of our daily life. It takes a payoff to get a job, a better hospital room, an account with a public utility or even a funeral. Sometimes such payments surface and become a scandal. Few try to fight corruption; most just accept it and learn to manage it. That's easier and less dangerous. Pierpaolo di Caterino Isernia, Italy...
...goes through its current upheaval,” Carroll wrote in an e-mail. Upheaval is something familiar to Carroll. The Times had just been acquired by the Tribune Publishing Company of Chicago when he came on board in 2000. At the time, the paper was embroiled in a scandal over advertising from the newly opened Staples Center. “He took a demoralized newspaper and turned it into a paper that was winning multiple Pulitzer Prizes,” said Jones. But success came at a price. According to an Oct. 10 article in The New Yorker...
...distorted figure in question is Robert Kelly seems secondary to the fact that he is peeing with an erection, which everyone knows is impossible. But while I would never put it past R to achieve the impossible, the real lesson was that the haters will always hate. As sexual scandal petered out, new rumors and public shaming rose to the surface. In 2004, Kelly had the humility to admit that he is too talented to read and write: “For the record, R Kelly is not the best at reading and writing. I don’t have...
...trouble with the law, friends say, he's certainly in trouble with Bush. Rove will continue managing the intersection of politics and policy in the White House but will have to regain the unfettered powers he once held. "The President's relationship with Karl has been damaged over the scandal," a Bush friend says. A source close to Rove says when Bush asked Rove whether he was responsible for leaking Plame's CIA identity to columnist Robert Novak, Rove told him "absolutely not." While that may have been strictly true, Fitzgerald's indictment suggests that Rove did at least discuss...
Getting caught funneling money to Saddam Hussein is certainly bad for p.r. But beyond that, after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker issued a report last week on the private sector's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, it isn't yet clear what will happen to the firms that allegedly handed Saddam $1.8 billion under the table...