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Still, this stain may not wipe away easily. As reported first in TIME, Buffett has been summoned to speak with regulators. He is scheduled to meet in New York on April 11 with representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Justice Department and the New York attorney general's office. Greenberg is set to be deposed the next day. "The stakes are high for anyone even superficially attached to the AIG transactions," says Christopher Bebel, a Houston securities lawyer and former federal prosecutor. "This is how things are today. It's hardball." After all, prosecutors aggressively hunted down...
Harvard will have to refrain from taking bad penalties in the offensive zone, a glaring stain in the Crimson’s 4-1 NCAA semifinal victory over St. Lawrence Friday night. Harvard compiled 12 penalties...
...Stalin's head of secret police: "Abakumov ... was another colorful, swaggering torturer, amoral condottiere and 'zoological careerist' who possessed all Beria's sadism but less of his intelligence. Abakumov unrolled a bloodstained carpet on his office floor before embarking on the torture of his victims in order not to stain his expensive Persian rugs...
...torture of prisoners has stained the American character, and President George W. Bush's nomination of Gonzales as Attorney General has made that stain indelible. Mary G. Nocella Wayne, New Jersey...
...because pollsters tell us our country is evenly divided politically, and the officeholders who should take a stand on those issues find self-preservation preferable to the possibility of being driven from office for doing the right thing. Gregory Nelson Joseph Glendale, Arizona, U.S. The torture of prisoners has stained the American character, and President Bush's nomination of Gonzales as Attorney General has made that stain indelible. Mary G. Nocella Wayne, New Jersey, U.S. The aggressive interrogation of suspected terrorists in our custody has probably led to critical intelligence gains, possibly thwarting other cowardly terrorist attacks on civilians...