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...only man with a functioning address shorter than Santa Claus'. He had publicly become Pee-wee exclusively, showing up in character even for print interviews, and having Pee-wee, not Reubens, as the name on his star on the Walk of Fame that was jackhammered up after the scandal. "This was my own private joke on conceptual art because I tried to make Pee-wee Herman totally real. It worked really good but totally backfired when I got arrested," he says...
...others, McCain never names the culprits. We could chalk this up to civility, but McCain has never before revealed any qualms about engaging in that “straight talk” he loves so well. Is it because he himself was implicated in the Keating Five scandal of the ’80s? As the standard newspaper accounts go, his involvement in that scandal led him to his jihad against the special interests...
...book of interest, says Ryan, is Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski. It was published initially as an autobiography but it was later discovered not to be autobiographical at all. Wilkomirski invented experiences in concentration camps, and the original publishing house retracted the book, causing an international scandal...
Equally sobering is the fact that reform efforts inevitably have unintended consequences: the next generation of abuse and scandal. Soft money didn't exist until the 1980s, when political parties figured out a way to exploit loopholes in the last reform that Congress passed, opening the way for donors to give hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time under the guise of "party building." Even McCain acknowledges his bill would be at best a temporary fix, one that would work only until politicians and interest groups figure a way around...
While the economy appears close to imploding, the political machinery is grinding to a halt. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who plans to meet President Bush in Washington this week, has overseen a scandal-ridden administration. His political colleagues are maneuvering to replace him within a month. Bush, meanwhile, has promised to treat Japan less as a pupil and more as an equal, which sounds diplomatic but not perhaps helpful. "They're going to have to figure out for themselves what to do," Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told MONEY magazine...