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...enforcement debacle. "I was personally | infuriated," Blum said. He argued that the plea bargain gave B.C.C.I. immunity from future prosecutions based on evidence in the case -- a charge that Justice disputes. Von Raab, sporting a yellow handkerchief that drooped flower-like from his breast pocket, called the settlement "a shameless agreement" and "a disaster in terms of the punishment that should have been meted out." He said B.C.C.I. had raked in some $200 million from the money- laundering scheme, which undercover customs agents exposed in a sting operation...
...that the picture will be a hit -- not because it is so smart about many small things but because it is so shameless in promoting its one big thing. Like the other sigh-fi movies, Regarding Henry says any mortal catastrophe offers an opportunity to erase the chalkboard mess we have made of our lives. We can make amends and have great sex too. By serving up comfy antidotes to illness and death, these movies provide a seductively meretricious form of release: New Age religion on the cheap. How like Hollywood to insist that the slogging drama of most people...
Whatever the shortcomings of the Chamorro government, they pale in comparison with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...
...final analysis, The Commanders, in spite of some rather shameless Page One hype last week in the Post, breaks little new ground about the war itself. Woodward devotes only his final six pages to the actual fighting, and hardly mentions such things as allied targeting procedures for the air war, the failure of Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard to mount a serious counterattack, and the Pentagon's success at using its unprecedented control over press coverage to win public acceptance of the war. Omissions of that kind seem all the more glaring in a book written by a co-star...
Sleazemeister Supreme Trophy: ALFONSE D'AMATO New York's Republican will be investigated by the Senate ethics panel for housing subsidies awarded to contributors and friends. His shameless dealmaking embarrasses colleagues, who may issue a reprimand...