Word: secrets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...public humiliation, Kohl, 69, has remained defiant. Since the scandal first erupted late last year, he has steadily refused to name the sources of at least $1.2 million in unreported campaign contributions made to the C.D.U. during his tenure as Chancellor. He acknowledged using the cash to set up secret bank accounts, and then funneling money to favored politicians, all of which was illegal under stringent campaign laws introduced by none other than Kohl. He angered even his most stalwart supporters by implying that his promise of anonymity to the sources of the illegal money was more important than Germany...
...squeaked Buckwheat before dropping into the deep baritone and Standard English he uses except when he's in character. "You mean the Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, that secret outfit that goes around making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies like the idiotic fuss in Washington last year over the word niggardly? Cut the Ebonics, Kingfish! If there's another STUPID racial fight going on, it's a serious issue...
...campus awoke to a big surprise Friday morning when they discovered that the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, actually produced an issue...
...Israeli diplomats leak a working draft of an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty last week? The U.S. believes so and is furious. The secret document, prepared by U.S. mediators during the last round of talks, maps out points of agreement and disagreement between the two sides on a proposed land-for-peace deal...
...little noticed antidrug deal was not secret. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey had described it in an appearance before Congress, and the WB bragged about it in a press release. After the controversy broke last week, the networks, which are usually under attack for assaulting family values, were exasperated to find themselves under attack for promoting them...