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...chaos ruled at the event. Charged mainly with keeping canned drinks and bottles out of the stadium, the freshly minted guards at Yokahama stadium?most aged under 20?stood dumbly by as crowds of fans stormed past the checkpoints. And what would the World Cup be without a ticket scandal? Japan's organizing committee decided not to sell to travel agents, no doubt remembering how Japanese fans in France were fleeced by crooked tour operators. But plans to hawk individual tickets online proved disastrous, with potential buyers unable to get onto the website. Other irate fans have complained that they...
...Street also dreads a lengthy process to resolve the analyst flap, which, layered on top of the accounting concerns springing from the Enron scandal, is driving investors away. To help regain their confidence, brokerage firms are making a show of efforts to reform. Last week UBS Warburg initiated its coverage of JetBlue Airways--a firm whose IPO it co-managed last month--by advising investors to "reduce" their holdings. It was apparently a pre-emptive move, to show regulators that UBS Warburg is indeed capable of using the word sell...
This much, however, is clear: no mainstream research has found any link between pedophilia and homosexuality. And even in the current storm of scandal, no one knows whether there are any more pedophile priests than, say, pedophile teachers. And while the great majority of the victims who have recently come to public attention were teenage boys when they were abused, no one knows how many girls may also have been molested...
This is New Burlesque, the artistic stepsister of stripping. Performed mostly by and for twenty- and thirtysomethings, it has been spreading across North America for the past five years, practiced by troupes from New York City (Le Scandal) to Vancouver, Canada (Fluffgirls Burlesque), to New Orleans (the Shimshamettes...
...abuse he says occurred in Massachusetts between 1983 and 1989. Authorities were able to overcome the state's 10-year statute of limitations fairly simply: the clock for the 10-year period does not start ticking until the victim turns 16. The former catechism student is now 24. The scandal may have loosened these time restrictions; in Connecticut on the day of Shanley's arrest, the state house approved a bill that would extend its statute of limitations for child sexual abuse to 30 years after the victim turns 18--up from two years...