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...there are many aspects to Latham's emerging public image. He promised to curtail his loose tongue and aggressive parliamentary manner. So far, he has been disciplined. Given his dramatic rise, journalists are seeking to fill out his back story. After a slush of rumors about his private life, and claims of physical violence, Latham held an Oprah-style press conference to defend his character. A safe player would have issued a denial and held his nerve; Latham turned the episode into hyper-reality TV. "There were things that you just wouldn't believe," Latham told reporters about his first...
...actual house situated behind Claverly) each week. He assembled an e-mail list, now 60-strong, and encouraged friends to initiate some “word of mouth advertising” among seniors in Adams and around campus. “Everyone contributed like $25” for the slush fund, says Valle, and Senior Bar was born...
...pointer from the gift committee’s playbook, think of the “improvements in the undergraduate experience for future students” your refusal to donate can effect. When alma mater comes after the pocketbook, it certainly is time for some reflection: not about whether her slush fund needs some cash, but about whether she has indeed earned lifelong loyalty and love. I believe that she hasn’t, but I respect all seniors’ prerogatives to make their own decisions. The Senior Gift Committee, on the other hand, with its detailed strategy guide...
...December sky darkens as a stream of commuters in the Square tramples snow into slush and crowds the slippery steps of an escalator descending into the T station. They reassemble on the outbound platform, glancing at the tracks as an Alewife-bound train rumbles above. For a moment, the station falls silent. Then at once there is music, echoing off the crimson tiles and turning heads toward the rear of the platform...
...current campaign-financing investigation is different from past scandals, however, because it is the first to take aim at a sitting President. Touched off this year when auditors looking into possible accounting fraud at SK's trading arm, SK Global, uncovered a multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent...