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...Manhattan, an annual Holocaust service was moved from a synagogue to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum, where an overflow audience of 5,500 heard Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, declare, "A courtesy call at a conveniently located concentration camp cannot compensate for the callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said, "Reconciliation in the present is fine between British and Germans, French and Italians...
...Hutton, the fifth-largest U.S. brokerage firm, cannot escape an ongoing scandal. In fact, the company seems to become enmeshed ever deeper in suspicions and allegations. In May, Hutton was fined $2 million plus legal costs after pleading guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud involving an elaborate check-kiting operation. That admission, though, seems to have been just the beginning of the firm's problems. Last week Hutton divulged that it had failed to submit 18 documents subpoenaed by the Justice Department during a three-year investigation of its practices. Former Hutton President George L. Ball...
...started innocuously enough: a credit card customer in Connecticut opened his monthly statement and noticed a charge for a piece of electronic equipment that he had never purchased. By last week that apparent billing error had blossomed into a full-fledged hacker scandal and led to the arrest of seven New Jersey teenagers who were charged with conspiracy and using their home computers and telephone hookups to commit computer theft...
Most of the contaminated wine is from the province of Burgenland. The scheme first came to light after health authorities, acting on anonymous tips, began testing wine for the chemical. By April they were sure enough of their results to reveal them, but public awareness of the scandal came only in early July, when the West German government announced that 78,000 gal. of imported Austrian wine contained the chemical...
...Carter will also face a number of challenges as chairman. His appointment comes at a time when the NYSE is still recovering from a financial scandal that rocked the exchange nearly 18 months ago. After receiving intense criticism concerning a $140 million retirement package, former NYSE chairman Richard Grasso yielded to mounting pressures and resigned in September...