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Just whom can you trust in Moscow these days? That's the challenge facing U.S. officials probing an alleged money-laundering scandal in which $15 billion is said to have been funneled out of Russia through the staid Bank of New York. Members of the investigating task force were reported Wednesday to be reluctant to share information with their Russian colleagues, for fear that such information would find its way quickly into the hands of the targets of the probe. "The concern here is not that individual criminals have bought off individual law enforcement officials, but rather that the police...
...Archbishop's fall had a bit of everything: a sex scandal, an Internet cabal and even a Stephanopoulos. Not to mention speed. Last week, three short years after the Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Istanbul installed Ohio-born Archbishop Spyridon, leader of 1.5 million American believers, Spyridon bitterly gave his resignation. It was as if the body religious had rejected a transplanted organ...
...desperate times, desperate titles. Heroes for Sale, in which Richard Barthelmess endures war injuries, morphine addiction and betrayal by every military, judicial and corporate authority, was joined on marquees by Beauty for Sale, Girls for Sale, Scandal for Sale. The films painted, in brisk, garish strokes, America's can-do optimism twisted into gotta-have greed. "What could I do?" asks Stanwyck about an office liaison in Baby Face. "He's my boss, and I had to earn my living." She's bad, but the Depression made...
After Salt Lake City's Olympic-bribery scandal forced the resignation or dismissal of 10 IOC members, the head of the Atlanta Olympic Committee, BILLY PAYNE, said his group won the 1996 Games without resorting to underhanded tactics. "We did not bribe anyone," he said in February. "We did not make cash payments. We did not give outrageous gifts." And in a June report to the House Commerce Committee investigating violations of federal bribery laws in Olympic bids, Payne and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young attested to only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more...
What I want to say to the press is "Don't ask." And what I want to say to George W. is "Don't tell." I don't have any confidence that the press will take my advice. Like drunks, they vow every four years to stop covering scandal. They go up to Harvard to dry out, and then they come back craving more. But I think the Governor just might listen to me, not only because my wife Mary is a friend of his and a supporter but because I've seen my share of scandals...