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After a leak to a Salt Lake City TV station by a disgruntled employee of the local organizing committee and provocative questions raised by a member of the I.O.C., the Salt Lake Olympic bidders stand suspected of bribing the I.O.C. members who decide where the next Olympics will take place. So far, four groups--the I.O.C., the U.S. Olympic Committee (whose probe is headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell), the Justice Department and a Utah ethics committee--have opened investigations into the mess. The IRS may be next...
...station also reported that the boy appears in an obscene videotape that the FBI seized in a raid...
Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...grew up in a drought-stricken town in Iowa in the 1930s listening to "Dutch" Reagan the sportscaster on radio station WHO, Des Moines. More than 50 years later, I watched President Reagan with his newfound friend Mikhail Gorbachev, stroll through Red Square talking and laughing with the Moscow citizens lining up to see the embalmed body of Lenin, the communist godfather. It was mind boggling...
...absconded with a Salvation Army kettle, then collected all day on his own and pocketed the take. A Grinch in Madison, Wis., made off with 10 van loads of toys donated by the Marines. Meanwhile, a student in Frostburg, Md., so liked the tree that stood alongside the police station that he cut it down and set it up in his home without even removing the ornaments made by local children. Talk about humbug...