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...BANNED. DWAIN CHAMBERS, 25, British sprinter and European 100-meter champion, from competition for two years after testing positive for the prohibited steroid THG; in London. Chambers is the first major sports star to be punished in a scandal involving a San Francisco-area laboratory under federal investigation for supplying performance-enhancing drugs to athletes...
...When a scandal hits, most coaches have the foresight to tread carefully around every public word they say—or simply shut up. Gary Barnett, head coach of the University of Colorado football team, chose not to follow this example when he spoke at a press conference discussing the rape allegations of former placekicker for the Buffalos, Katie Hnida...
Billy Johnson of Altamonte Springs, Fla., is convinced that one of the tens of thousands of new jobs in India should be his. Johnson, 41, was a programmer for WorldCom when the company imploded in the wake of a massive accounting scandal. After six months of looking for a programming job, Johnson realized that the work he knows is exactly what outsourcing companies do best. "I spent $5,000 of my own money to become an Oracle [enterprise software] developer," he says. "Nobody's hiring Oracle developers." For a while, he believed it was just the economy. A lifelong Republican...
Scandinavia has long prided itself on its immaculate corporate culture. Business is conducted by consensus, and greed is publicly frowned upon. But a series of scandals at some of the region's best-known companies has severely tarnished that image. Back in September, three top executives resigned from Norway's state oil company Statoil for their alleged part in arranging a $15 million "consulting contract" that police fear was used to bribe Iranian officials. Since early last year, Sweden's economic police have been investigating reports that some of the 421 store managers at Systembolaget, the country's state-owned...
...also referred to former Senator Trent Lott’s 2002 scandal as “a disgusting affair...