Speechless execs say Chinese billboard will be removed immediately
Slate Apr 30, 08 12:48 PM CDT
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Red-faced Disney execs paused their Miley Cyrus finger-wagging yesterday when asked about a billboard showcasing an underage model in Disney-themed skivvies above a Beijing subway station, Slate reports. The ad, paid for by the squeaky-clean cartoon empire, features a pig-tailed pubescent girl lounging in mouse-logo bra and panties playing with a pair of Minnie Mouse puppets.
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Ahern was most successful PM in decades
Irish Times (Ireland) Apr 2, 08 7:11 AM CDT
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The prime minister of Ireland announced his resignation today in the face of a growing scandal over his personal finances, reports the Irish Times . Bertie Ahern, a key player in the Northern Ireland peace deal once tipped to be the first permanent EU president, admitted no wrongdoing in the surprise announcement. A tribunal has been investigating whether he took kickbacks while serving as Ireland's finance minister.
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Spygate has commissioner worried about cheating in football
Washington Post Mar 27, 08 8:35 AM CDT
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Still red-faced from the Patriots' "Spygate" videotaping scandal last season, the NFL is searching for ways to rebuild fan trust and protect the "integrity of the game," reports the Washington Post . Commissioner Roger Goodell has outlined a plan aimed at stemming cheating that is expected to get the green light at the annual owners' meeting in Miami Monday.
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'The remorse I feel will always be with me,' New York governor says
CNN Mar 12, 08 10:42 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer, with his wife again at his side, announced his resignation in a short press conference this morning. The New York governor apologized for his "private" misconduct, again without making direct reference to the prostitution scandal that has ended his political career. "I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me," he said. “I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
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OPINION
Fellow New Yorker's
fall from grace is an unwanted distraction, unpleasant reminder
Nation Mar 11, 08 3:40 PM CDT
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Will the Eliot Spitzer scandal hurt fellow New York Democrat Hillary Clinton, who's all too familiar with the travails of philandering men? Writers are weighing in: Clinton had trouble securing Spitzer's endorsement, writes John Nichols in the Nation , and now, "He is a distraction—the big player in her adopted home state who is now in big, big trouble." One positive: David Paterson would "instantly become Clinton's most prominent African-American backer."
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OPINION
Should he go? What would it take to stay?
Wall Street Journal Mar 11, 08 12:35 PM CDT
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As Eliot Spitzer mulls his options, the editorial boards of the state's newspapers are weighing in: Wall Street Journal: "The stupendously deluded belief that the sitting governor of New York could purchase the services of prostitutes was the last act of a man unable to admit the existence of, or need for, limits."
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Experts wonder why smart guys do really stupid things
Associated Press Mar 11, 08 10:55 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer's reported involvement with a pricey call-girl ring has left, well, everyone scratching their heads, the AP reports. What makes a public figure show such jaw-dropping disregard for the consequences of private actions? One analyst calls it "the psychology of the exception. People in power sometimes feel they can do things that us, mere mortals, are forbidden to do. There's a sense, as with adolescents, that 'I won't get caught.'"
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Friends call him a 'Boy Scout,' but governor kept secrets well hidden
Financial Times (UK) Mar 11, 08 7:43 AM CDT
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Eliot Spitzer's biographer was as shocked as anyone to discover his involvement with a prostitution ring yesterday. The New York governor was regarded as a devoted and faithful husband, and his college girlfriends still spoke fondly of him. The whole debacle, writes Brooke Masters in the Financial Times , "serves as a shocking reminder that even the most public figures can have unexpected facets."
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Ex-candidate may seize opportunity if McCain scandal broadens
Deseret News (Salt Lake) Feb 25, 08 4:10 PM CST
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Mitt Romney has been curiously mum since John McCain’s lobbyist scandals broke last week, perhaps because he’s thinking of jumping back into the presidential race. Josh Romney said it was "unlikely, but possible” that his father would throw his hat back in if McCain’s ethics problems broaden and imperil his candidacy, the Deseret Morning News reports.
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Calls female lobbyist a 'friend,' denies any 'unwarranted access or influence'
CNN Feb 21, 08 8:18 AM CST
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A subdued John McCain, flanked by his wife, held a press conference today to deny all charges in a New York Times story alleging improprieties involving a female lobbyist. Saying he is "disappointed" in the Times , and that the story alleging a romantic relationship is "not true," McCain said that he and Vicki Iseman are just friends, and that he did not do favors for her as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. He said no former staffer ever spoke to him about an appearance of impropriety in his relationship with Iseman, as several claimed to the Times .
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Pair accused of living large on donations
Associated Press Jan 11, 08 6:31 AM CST
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Two more televangelists have stepped down from the board of regents of Oral Roberts University, under pressure from a congressional probe into misuse of funds. Benny Hinn and IV Hilliard are two of six preachers under investigation for living lavishly on their congregations' dime and violating their ministries' tax-exempt status.
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Author claims he's goat in 'old-school cover-up'
McClatchy Newspapers Dec 19, 07 2:31 PM CST
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A political operative jailed in a scheme to jam Democratic phones during 2002's Senate race in New Hampshire claims the scandal originated in the upper reaches of the Republican Party, McClatchy Newspapers report. Allen Raymond’s book, How to Rig an Election, accuses the party of an “old-school cover-up,” but the author also alleges Republican National Committee attorneys OK'd the scheme.
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Ex-bodyguard changed name, 'died a long time ago,' brother says
Associated Press Dec 16, 07 3:31 PM CST
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A plotter in the 1994 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan died this week of natural causes at age 40, the AP reports. Brian Sean Griffith, ex-bodyguard to figure-skating Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding, confessed to helping organize the attack on Kerrigan days after it happened. Griffith served 14 months and later changed his name from Shawn Eckhardt to start a new life.
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