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...many Americans, 2002 will go down in history as the year corporations failed them. Story after incredible story of greed and wrongdoing has created an array of new bogeymen: Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski (31 felony counts), Enron's Andrew Fastow (indicted for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy), ImClone's Sam Waksal (insider trading). Politicians have huffed and chuffed about how to fix the system, but legislation proposed to date is likely to lack teeth. The Bush Administration responded late to the public's sense of outrage, then seemed to lose focus. In the end, the only man who appeared...
...business in the city's garment center, but no one could figure out how to crack it or how to make the case. At the time Spitzer was the 33-year-old chief of the labor-racketeering unit at the Manhattan district attorney's office. A few attempts to wire undercover agents had failed, in part because the target--the notorious Gambino family--was wary of such tricks. So Spitzer came up with a high-risk plan to set up his own sweatshop. He brought in a state trooper to run it undercover, then hired 30 laborers...
...archdiocese of Boston was contemplating filing for bankruptcy last week to cope with the estimated 450 civil sex-abuse suits against it, two top Vatican officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic news wire that the U.S. sex-abuse scandal was an "intentional, manipulated...desire to discredit the church" by the media. The conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis on the American press...
...Middle East and a broader strategic interest that is likely to force it out of its obsession with its own bureaucratic processes. The other chief result of the summit will have the same effect. After more than two years of tough negotiations, some of which went down to the wire last Friday night, the E.U. agreed the exact terms under which 10 candidate countries, most of them survivors of the Soviet bloc, will join the Union on May 1, 2004. "The deal that we have reached here in Copenhagen represents the E.U. at its best: leadership, solidarity and determination," said...
...break down. Beyond the broken clutch handle, our trip also saw a friend's handlebars come loose and a mysterious power problem in one bike that stumped four mechanics. But enthusiasts say it's all part of the Minsk experience. "Expect to have some fun improvising with gaffer tape, wire, sticks, rocks and tractor parts," reads the Hanoi-based Minsk Club's official repair manual. On Vietnam's winding northern tracks, the journey is often the destination?and so are the repairs...