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Papandreou's Back Greek voters returned Socialist Andreas Papandreou to power as Prime Minister four years after scandal drove the 74-year-old politician from the same office. He immediately reversed plans made by his conservative predecessor, Constantine Mitsotakis, to privatize large swaths of the Greek economy. Papandreou appointed his wife Dimitra to a top advisory position...
...latest scandal at the top of cycling's flagship competition adds weight to the lingering question of whether doping poses a fatal threat to this most grueling of endurance sports. French television interviewed fans in the hills above the southern French town of Lavelanet after news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death...
...Jeffords and Chafee were members of a dying breed - the liberal New England Republican. McCain, on the other hand, was a Western conservative from Arizona who had gone to Congress as a Reagan Republican. But after the searing experience of getting entangled in the Keating Five scandal in the 1980s, McCain had grown increasingly independent, pursuing campaign-finance reform and other causes that made his fellow Republicans doubt his ideological convictions...
...dollars in envelopes stuffed with cash for campaign funds which were used for expensive items and vacations. Talansky also claims he gave Olmert loans which were never re-paid. Olmert denies the allegations but says that if he is indicted, he will resign. For many Israelis, sick of the scandal that has engulfed the prime minister for many months, that can't happen soon enough. Olmert, they say, has been too wrapped up in his own defense that he cannot run the country, or make peace with the Palestinians...
...United States was dominated by his unprecedented attempts to heal the wounds from the clergy sex abuse crisis, including a series of heartfelt remarks and a private meeting in Washington with five victims from the Boston Archdiocese, which was hardest hit by pedophile priests. But though the scandal in the U.S. may have been the most widespread, and certainly most public, there are, in fact, cases of sex abuse all around the Catholic world - as there are, as the Vatican always points out, in all walks of life. In Australia, victims' rights groups are calling on the Pope to respond...