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Brooke H. McCarthy '01, co-captain of the women's soccer team, says her team drinks together to celebrate games or to bond with teammates. McCarthy says these social situations are safe for drinkers because "you always have 27 other people looking...
...First, "Temptation Island." A show that basically works on the voyeuristic principle that romantic love is a much weaker bond than lust, and if you throw some buffed bodies in front of men or women, they will soon surrender...
...biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million--not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody was as lucky as Rich; junk-bond king Michael Milken, who was opposed by the SEC, and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who has no fans in the intelligence community, were denied pardons...
Investigators and auditors are also looking into the blatantly improper arrangements between the sheriff and seven bail-bonding companies that have been allowed to set up shop inside the jail without paying rent. State law prohibits bondsmen from having such access. Investigators are also looking for possible wrongdoing at three of the bonding companies, including one formerly owned by civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams. Apart from not paying rent, the companies may have been allowed by former sheriffs to operate without posting $150,000 cash or property bonds, contrary to jail policy. After being sworn in, Derwin planned to evict...
...Paige placed principals on performance contracts contingent on student achievement and saved the district money by contracting out lunchroom and maintenance services. With the help of Houston business executives, whose conservative politics had historically been at odds with the district leadership, Paige won voter approval for a $678 million bond issue in 1998--the largest of its kind in Texas--to repair 69 schools and build 10 new ones...