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...gambling on foreign websites. The U.S. says it will appeal, but don't bet against online gambling. Very Expensive Room Service For over 50 years, Germans maintained unwavering faith in one institution: the Bundesbank, now a regional affiliate of the European Central Bank. Thus, the scandal around the bank's president, Ernst Welteke, has come as a shock. Welteke and his family stayed at Berlin's luxurious Hotel Adlon on New Year's Eve, 2001. Dresdner Bank picked up the tab - over 37,660 - landing Welteke under state investigation. Welteke paid his share last Monday and took a vacation...
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Sounds like a recipe for potential disaster, and it too often is. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults...
Major League Baseball needs A-Rod's greatness to be a distraction from the steroid scandal that is making people want their money back from the home-run explosion of the past few years. The scandal didn't land within fungo distance of him, but Rodriguez, a company guy all the way, claims competing against cheaters doesn't bother him--only partly because he has led the American League in homers the past three years anyway. "I'm a strong believer in innocent until proven guilty," he says. "I've never assumed any other players were on steroids...
Britney had the kiss. Janet, the nipple. And now, proving guys too aren't above exploiting a sexy scandal to sell some records, USHER has a love child. Or doesn't. Lyrics on the buff R.-and-B. star's new album, Confessions, are fueling gossip that his recent split from his girlfriend Chilli, of the band TLC, was caused by another woman's carrying Usher's baby. "My chick on the side said she got one on the way," the hip-hop heartthrob croons on the CD. Usher's publicist insists there is no baby and denies speculation that...
...Times, as at Harvard, it is hard to get in and almost impossible to flunk out." HOWELL RAINES, former New York Times executive editor, writing in the Atlantic Monthly about the Times culture that he tried to change before the Jayson Blair scandal forced his resignation...