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...firm canceled the deal when McDermott told his partners he was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for giving stock tips to a friend. "It wasn't until I saw the subpoena that I saw a name attached to this so-called friend," says John Duffy, the firm's current CEO. "Clearly there were things he didn't tell us. Fortunately, Jim has been gone for six months. I kind of wish it was six years...
Despite its recent setbacks, the voucher movement is gaining ground in state legislatures and some state courts. This fall Florida started the first statewide voucher program. And the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the use of vouchers in parochial schools in Milwaukee. In the presidential campaign, G.O.P. candidates John McCain and George W. Bush are trumpeting voucher proposals. While Vice President Al Gore launched an ad that calls vouchers a "big mistake," his Democratic opponent Bill Bradley supports them, at least as "experiments...
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...should select pope John Paul II. He has brought hope and transmitted the values of peace, liberty and faith to the world. He broke down communism in Europe. He is the greatest leader. JORGE EDUARDO OLIVARES Guadalajara, Mexico...
Director Oliver Stone, who wrote Any Given Sunday's screenplay with John Logan, may be momentarily in a nonpolitical mood, but that does not mean he has given up his preoccupations with paranoia, greed and the brutality of American life. He sees his warriors as innocent animals, the purity of their violent athletic endeavors under constant threat of corruption by people trying to make a buck off their pain. Or, in the case of a particularly noxious sports reporter (John C. McGinley), a know-nothing who thinks he knows it all, just trying to make a name for himself...