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...career as the butt-kicking type. She performed on Star Search when she was 11 and failed to win. Closely supported by family (her mom is her manager), she released her first album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, when she was just 15 but was rocked by scandal when reports surfaced that she had secretly married R. Kelly, the producer of her debut, who was 10 years older. Kelly and Aaliyah have since parted ways. When asked if she is still in touch with Kelly, Aaliyah answers only with a firm, frosty no. Her multiplatinum sophomore album...
...into his office, and you better be prepared. Show him up, and you've made an enemy for years. His verbal dressing downs while at the helm of mighty Morgan Stanley left underlings nearly needing a change of underthings. He is, it seems, just the tough s.o.b. to rescue scandal-ridden Credit Suisse First Boston--and restore a badly needed ounce of credibility to Wall Street. Hello, Mack the Knight...
...recent years--a good many of the disaster deals having sprung from the IPO factories at Mack's new firm as well as his old one. That's noteworthy because at the heart of CSFB's problems, and one of the main reasons Mack was hired, is an IPO scandal that has shredded the firm's reputation. There are other issues at CSFB too. The firm overpaid for competitor Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, and now is losing some of the star bankers that came with that acquisition. CSFB defines excess: 60% of revenue goes toward employee compensation, a full 10 percentage...
...effectively. Its most high-profile construction project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C., for its part, is still reeling from a vote-buying scandal connected with next year's Salt Lake City Games. "The Olympics are about construction contracts, and this is a perfect marriage of two corrupt organizations," says British author Andrew Jennings, a longtime critic of the Games. But the stadiums, the politics, the potential corruption?all that will play out over...
...real objection is to the obsessive way the news is pursued - through the activation of the mouth-frothing, feed-me, feed-me, 24-7 omnivore. Television news has become a sleek, conscienceless predator that works the family beaches and devours everything - high history, low scandal, license plates, dog bones, your private life if you are unlucky enough to fall into the maw. Who would want to be famous in this society...