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...Dejavu”. The meeting was caught on hidden video, according to an affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Krista L. Corr. In addition, Turner allegedly denied accepting the payment when questioned about it on Oct. 28 this year. During the interrogation, Turner allegedly commented on how widespread corruption was among politicians. “If you took out all corrupt politicians, you’d take out 90 percent and you’d be left with us 10 percent,” he said, according to the affidavit. Turner was arraigned on Friday and released...
...China - the "fragile superpower" as one historian memorably called it - about to experience the one thing its leaders and many analysts and academics outside the country have feared for years: a violent contraction in its economy that some fear could spark widespread social unrest among its billion inhabitants? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and supports reforming Wisconsin’s notoriously lax drinking laws. While these coalitions may seem to have opposite goals—most significantly, the latter wants to reduce underage drinking—they are both signs of the widespread dissatisfaction with the current state of alcohol laws in the country.AWARE makes many arguments about Wisconsin that are entirely justified. The state’s current drunk-driving laws are unconscionably lax: A first conviction is considered a civil rather than criminal penalty. Wisconsin is the only state in which this...
Professor Niall Ferguson argued that the current economic crisis developed largely as a result of widespread ignorance of financial history, while speaking to a packed house at the Harvard Book Store last night to promote his new book, “The Ascent of Money.” Ferguson faulted the U.S. Federal Reserve for complicity in the stock market bubble, claiming that home ownership had become over-politicized in recent years as a result of efforts by the federal government to increase ownership rates and widespread leveraging of real-estate assets. “Real financial alchemy was performed...
...under the state's new safe-haven law. "We were being ridiculed every day," says state senator Dianna Schimek of Lincoln, "but I have no apologies because something good will come of this. We uncovered something that we need to address. And it's not just Nebraska - it's widespread...