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...Andersen, the Enron scandal may only get worse. A senior Administration official told TIME last week that an indictment of the Big Five accounting firm or some of its executives could be imminent. An adviser to the company, meanwhile, acknowledged that it was on the brink of serious financial trouble and suggested that an indictment might force it to seek protection under bankruptcy laws. This is vehemently denied by Andersen spokesman Charlie Leonard. "You can't [declare bankruptcy] if you're solvent," he says. "Andersen is solvent...
...twist to the scandal, plaintiffs' lawyers involved in the deposition of Duncan's former assistant Shannon Adlong told TIME last week that the shredding of documents actually began on Oct. 13 - 10 days before Andersen admitted it started and a day after Temple's memo. Adlong, who was responsible for ordering extra bags for the shredded papers, said so much evidence had to be destroyed that 32 "trunks," each the size of a football locker, were hauled off by a shredding company...
...just as the reader thinks hey, maybe Clinton wasn't so bad after all, Monica raises her beret-clad head. For a moment, Klein indulges Clinton's blame shifting, pointing to the capital's investigatory madness and scandal-mongering press. (As Anonymous, he could empathize.) But quickly he shows that Monica was the vehicle for bringing forth Clinton's pre-existing conditions, his flabby, self-pitying side, the one that thought he deserved to take his pleasure where he could find it and could talk his way out of it if caught...
...been only 10 months since the Levy-Condit scandal broke. Although Chandra Levy came into the news for tragic reasons she quickly ceased to be the impetus for investigation. Instead, journalists reported on Representative Gary Condit’s (D-Calif.) past extramarital affairs, again taking up countless hours of precious news time...
Since these sex scandals, no new ones have risen to take their place. We are witnessing a shift in what even popular journalists consider fair game. Some people persist in arguing that journalists are justified in airing the dirty laundry of anyone in the public eye: people want dirt and they insist on it. And perhaps we do. After all, a nasty, shocking scandal allows us to live vicariously in a sexy and seedy world that we can only catch a glimpse of in movies, not in our mundane lives...