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Some lefties they have there on PBS: William F. Buckley Jr., Ben Wattenberg and that far-famed enemy of capitalism Louis Rukeyser. Like Pat Robertson's views on "creation science," this belief hinges on ignoring the fossil evidence. Sure, PBS has run programs exposing business fraud, supporting homosexual and other minority claims to rights, satirizing religion (however mildly) and questioning some government practices. Sometimes it has been guilty of "imbalance," but at least it hasn't completely succumbed to the emasculating belief that every assertion in a given program should be at once neutralized by its opposite. Compared with public...
...chicken to hammer a nail into a board. Perdue's point is simple: the law is absurd. Current rules permit poultry frozen hard as a bowling ball to be thawed at market and sold as "fresh" to an unsuspecting public. From the producer's perspective, the rationale for this fraud is easily understood. Freezing increases shelf life, and chickens labeled "fresh" command as much as $2 a pound more than birds marketed as frozen. At current consumption levels, this rip-off costs Americans nearly $1 billion annually...
...even if the USDA finally fixes this fraud by adopting a 26 degree rule, it could be undermined in three ways...
...publicly pledging the company's cooperation with the FBI. The scrutiny of ADM has prompted a sense of poetic justice in some members of the Chicago Board of Trade, as ADM helped FBI agents launch a 1989 sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole sweet irony of their getting stung after initiating a sting...
...center of the collapse of Britain's oldest investment bank, is begging to be tried in London rather than be "thrown to the wolves" at a "show trial" in Singapore, where he allegedly made hundreds of millions in bad trades that bankrupted Baring Bros. Unfortunately for him, the Serious Fraud Office in London said it had no evidence that would justify Leeson's extradition to the United Kingdom. Leeson's wife read his plea, written in the German jail where he now awaits a decision, at a news conference today. Singapore, which is noted for its harsh legal system...