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...performers" attempted to do their best rendition of the Jackson Five's smash hit "Whatever you got, I want." But while the Jackson Five made a cameo on SNL during the seventies, this group, known as the "Keating Five" made a cameo in S&L--the savings and loan scandal. Yes, only about 10 years ago John McCain was brought before the Senate Disciplinary Committee for his role in the "Keating Five" scandal. McCain accepted about $112,000 from convicted white-collar felon Charles Keating in exchange for assisting in a lobbying effort with federal prosecutors...
Unfortunately, the council's scandal did not have quite the same flair as the nationally televised Monicagate. Clinton's impeachment was riveted around an affair, a cigar and the definition of sex. Burton's impeachment centered around shoplifting, 180 buttons and the definition of "freely available resource." "I did not lie to the Election Commission" doesn't have the ring of "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...
...allegedly passed a constitutional amendment on whether the council can remove a popularly elected official from office. The recent crisis concerning the expulsion of Vice President Errant John A. Burton '01 seems to be merely a marker in a long line of council crises. But look closer: the impeachment scandal may actually be something the council has done right...
...many students have heard about council affairs all year. It has single-handedly shot the council's ratings if not through the roof, then at least out of the basement. Thanks to the trial, The Boston Globe has taken an interest in student politics. What else besides a juicy scandal could have sent spectators to council meetings? Plus, the council now not only appears interesting, but also hip. Our own president was impeached. The council is following the latest national trend...
...plea bargain by two key suspects in the Bank of New York money laundering scandal exposed last year could prove devastating to some Moscow movers and shakers. Reuters reported Wednesday that former Bank of New York official Lucy Edwards and her husband, Peter Berlin, owner of the company through whose accounts the illegally transferred billions were moved, pleaded guilty in New York to money laundering charges. "Presumably, the government is going to try and get them to cooperate and tell investigators how this money laundering scheme worked, what its mechanisms were," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "And obviously...