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...Brazil Spymasters Suspended President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suspended the directors of the Brazilian intelligence agency, ABIN, following allegations that it had tapped the phones of several government officials. Silva has called for an investigation into the scandal, which broke after a Brazilian newsmagazine published the transcript of a telephone conversation between Brazil's Supreme Court President and a Senator...
Kilpatrick leaves behind a city council that is itself enveloped in the smog of scandal. One-third of the council is reportedly under investigation by the FBI in connection with a sludge-disposal contract. With this particular political sludge moved out of the mayor's office, however, Detroiters are welcoming the chance for a semi-clean start with council president Ken Cockrel Jr., who will become the new mayor...
...Vogue Magazine 3. Photos 4. Beauty Pageant 5. Bio 6. Biography 7. Pictures 8. Scandal 9. Alaska Governor...
...state party over the past few years has made Palin the Frank Serpico of Alaska politics: she publicly ratted out her state party chairman; whupped the good old boys' network, as she likes to put it, in a gubernatorial primary; and fought a general election in which the scandal-stained state GOP didn't lift a finger on her behalf. She won only because she had the enthusiastic backing of independents and grass-roots activists...
...Upper House to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the opposition party. Since then, Japanese politics has been rife with indecision. The government has been paralyzed by issues ranging from the appointment of a central bank governor to an antiterrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. Tack on a scandal over millions of dollars in lost pensions, a resumption of the gas tax, higher health insurance premiums for the elderly and the recent flailing and recessionary economy and its no surprise that Fukuda's approval ratings have hovered below...