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Bribery has always been a difficult thing to prove, absent a videotape of a crook stuffing the pockets of a politician with cash. But so large are the amounts involved?and so voluminous the evidence from a man who committed nearly every thought to e-mail?that prosecutors in the Abramoff case may even test the proposition that legally reported campaign contributions constitute bribery, if it can be proved they were given expressly in return for official actions. A high-level source tells TIME that prosecutors will also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove...
...make a damn decision. But also because these sitcoms deserve to be considered together (as I did in this feature in September). Both shows proved a network sitcom could be both good and popular. Each show had a distinctive voice: on Earl, that of a good-at-heart petty crook (Jason Lee) trying to make his life right, on Chris, the hard-edged nostalgia of narrator Chris Rock, looking back on his childhood in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. They share another, less fortunate attribute: neither show has developed its characters much beyond their hilarious but cartoony pilots, and if they...
...Here,” I said, taking her awkwardly by the elbow and helping her to her feet. She leaned against me without protest. Like a real lady she put her arm around the crook of my elbow, and like a real gentleman I escorted her to the toilet...
...DIED. JACK WHITE, 63, reporter for the Providence Journal whose 1973 story on Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes won the Pulitzer Prize and prompted Nixon, who ultimately paid more than $400,000 in back taxes, to utter the famous line, "I am not a crook"; on Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
...former deputy press secretary for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. Her speech focused on the debate over the Democratic platform for the 2006 election and the rules of message-framing used by communications professionals. “When [Richard] Nixon said, ‘I am not a crook,’ what did everyone think? That’s right, that he was a crook!” Davis said, demonstrating her rule about not using the opponent’s language.The members also attended several sessions on policy and skills, taught by political operatives and students experienced...