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About 250 people attended the event, at which eight journalists from the Boston Globe won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their work on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church...
...rape cases, first uncovered by the investigative unit at Denver's ABC affiliate KMGH, raise the question of whether the Tailhook sex-abuse scandal that hit the Navy in the early 1990s ever produced a new system capable of punishing men who commit these kinds of crimes. In 1993 the Air Force Academy launched a program touted as a model for teaching character, and three years later it instituted a rape-crisis hot line run by cadets. The academy claims fewer than 100 calls were placed to the hot line between 1996 and 2002, but this may be because some...
...thread" in reports of women victims who felt they were treated punitively or indifferently. For the academy superintendent, Lieut. General John R. Dallager, a combat pilot with 600-plus hours' flying over hot spots like Southeast Asia and Bosnia--and the father of three daughters in the military--the scandal has been devastating. "There is a power relationship," he notes. "There is a potential for abuse...
...Amsterdam, they're calling it "Enron on the Zaan," referring to the river that flows near the headquarters of Royal Ahold, the world's largest food retailer. And while that might be an exaggeration, Ahold has certainly scandalized the Netherlands' normally placid business life. The company's CEO, Cees van der Hoeven, and its finance chief, Michael Meurs, abruptly resigned last week following the discovery that a food-service subsidiary in the U.S. had overstated its operating earnings by at least $500 million. Ahold's stock immediately plunged by two-thirds, erasing €5 billion in value, although it picked...
...chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the President just after the Watergate break-in, he oversaw the strategy that led to Nixon's landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972. Never implicated in Watergate, MacGregor later said he had been "misled, deceived ...and lied to repeatedly." After the scandal, he left politics for good...