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...United Nations oil-for-food scandal is about to get nastier and more personal. Sources tell TIME that the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Minnesota's Norm Coleman, will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative and oh-so-illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing...
Meanwhile, the man running the U.N.'s probe of the scandal-ridden program scrambled last week to protect some of his findings from Congress. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker demanded that investigators on Capitol Hill return boxes of evidence they received from one of his employees who quit last month, associates say, angry because a Volcker report had underplayed criticism of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Concerned about leaks, Volcker said the documents included names of confidential sources "whose lives quite literally would be at risk if information about their cooperation became known...
...addition to attempting to address the psychology of the various individuals involved, “Abu Ghraib” explicitly addresses certain questions regarding American perceptions of the scandal and various gaps within American media coverage...
...credit, “Enron” does humanize some of the marquee names involved in the scandal. But with the controversy already yesterday’s news, the filmmakers need to reach beyond recounting history to give a fresh perspective, which this film never manages. The smartest guys in the room will probably steer clear of this one unless they’re sincerely interested in Enron and want to see about 12 seconds of strobe-lit nipples...
...same if, because of Chretien’s cronyism, the Conservative Party is able to seize power. It will be incredibly ironic if the Canadian Liberal Party, which has worked to make Canada increasingly progressive, causes not only the destruction if itself but also of Canadian liberalism. The Sponsorship Scandal is unacceptable—but even worse is the reality that the international notion that Canada is a liberal country may have to be abandoned. If that happens, all those calling for the relocation of Harvard to Canada in the aftermath of the re-election of President Bush might consider...