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...members were not familiar with trading practices and simply accepted Madoff's explanation that he used his "gut feel" to time the market on the basis of "his observations of the trading room." According to the report, examiners stated that "there was no training" and that "this was a trial by fire kind of job." It also said that examination team was "composed entirely of attorneys, who ... 'did not have much experience in equity and options trading' but 'rather, their experience was in general litigation.' " (See pictures of a Madoff family album...
...many Taiwan people to the urgency with which President Lee Teng-hui took charge of quake relief in 1999. People even came up with the stinging slogan "We'd rather have a corrupt President than an inept one!" - referring to former leader Chen Shui-bian, who is on trial for corruption. "[Ma's] behavior has given him a very negative image," says Yang Tai-shuenn, a political scientist at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. "It will take a very long time for him to recover...
...appeals: "The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification" for a new hearing, wrote John Paul Stevens. "This Court has never held," dissented Antonin Scalia, "that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent...
...there may be a more earthly kind of justice at work. Olmert is the fourth senior Israeli politician to face criminal charges in the past year: former President Moshe Katsav is on trial for rape (he has denied the charge); Olmert's former Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson was sentenced to five years for theft and money-laundering; and former Health Minister Shlomo Benizri of the Shas Party is about to start a prison sentence for bribery. "It reflects the growing toughness of the enforcement agencies, their ability and their will to confront the highest ranks of politics in order...
...another embarrassment when, following a party he attended at a Kennedy family house in Palm Beach, Fla., his nephew William Kennedy Smith was accused of raping a young woman. Though Kennedy, then 59, was never implicated in the crime and Smith was eventually acquitted, Kennedy testified at the trial about the drunken evening in which a group of men had traveled into town to pick up two younger women at a bar. (Read "Kennedy Memoir Set for September Release...