Airport men's room now on must-see list—even for women
Associated Press Sep 17, 07 7:57 AM CDT
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Be careful about tapping your foot in Minneapolis’ latest tourist destination. Travelers passing through the airport are clamoring to see the bathroom made famous by Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest last month in a sex sting. “We had to stop and check out the bathroom,” said one jet-set wife. In fact, it was her husband's second visit.
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Dem fundraiser was found disoriented, locked in train cabin
Wall Street Journal Sep 13, 07 9:56 AM CDT
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Fugitive fundraiser Norman Hsu sent out a suicide note to acquaintances and charities he had supported before he hopped a train to Colorado last week, skipping out on a Bay Area court appearance. On the train, Hsu locked himself in a tiny cabin. When he failed to come out the next day, Amtrak workers used a crowbar to pry open the door, the Wall Street Journal reports. They found a bare-chested, disoriented Hsu on the floor, surrounded by prescription pills.
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Coach apologizes as cameragate spying taints top team
Boston Herald Sep 13, 07 3:31 AM CDT
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After a Patriots employee was caught videotaping the Jets coaches signaling during Sunday's blowout in the Meadowlands, commissioner Roger Goodell is weighing the punishment for football's most stacked team. Patriots Coach Bill Belichick said he was sorry about the incident. "I want to apologize to everyone who has been affected, most of all ownership, staff and players," he said.
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Archbishop's supporters suspect regime is behind adultery lawsuit
Los Angeles Times Sep 12, 07 3:18 PM CDT
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An archbishop and prominent critic of Robert Mugabe's regime has resigned his Catholic Church leadership position after being accused of having an affair with a married woman. Pius Ncube remains a bishop, and his supporters say they see the authoritarian Zimbabwean regime behind the scandal, which Ncube calls "a state-driven, vicious attack," the LA Times reports.
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Strategy could delay resignation and stave off ethics probe
Associated Press Sep 10, 07 3:17 AM CDT
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Toe-tapping Senator Larry Craig will file a motion today to retract his guilty plea to charges linked to allegedly soliciting sex in a public men's room. Minnesota law allows convicts to recant pleas if they can prove they were not intelligently made, but such strategies rarely succeed. The legal proceedings could delay Craig's scheduled Sept. 30 retirement and stave off an investigation by the Senate ethics committee.
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Billy Martin has done damage control for
Lewinsky, Vick
Politico Sep 6, 07 8:41 AM CDT
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The man embattled Sen. Larry Craig turned to in his quest to clear his name, DC superstar lawyer Billy Martin, is a master at both legal strategy and managing public opinion, Politico reports. He shepherded the Lewinsky family through the Clinton sex scandal, positioned Wesley Snipes as the "victim of unscrupulous advice" in a tax evasion case, and most recently managed the plea bargain for NFL star Michael Vick.
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Apologizes for 'what I have caused'; thanks governor for support
Associated Press Sep 1, 07 11:40 AM CDT
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Idaho Sen. Larry Craig held a press conference this morning to announce his resignation at the end of September. Noting the presence of his family and Gov. Butch Otter behind him, he said, "For any public official at this moment in time to be standing with Larry Craig is, in itself, a humbling experience." Craig apologized for "what I have caused."
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New prosecutor will probe prez, Bork argues in National Review
National Review Aug 29, 07 7:20 PM CDT
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Dems will blitz Bush with document hunts and witness prep until election 2008, Robert Bork argues in the National Review, by demanding a special prosecutor along with the next attorney general . "A special prosecutor with unlimited funds, a soon-developed addiction to publicity, and a broad mandate" will go after an indictment – theater that will only distract the US at “a time of national insecurity.”
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GOP insider: 'You can’t make this stuff up'
New York Times Aug 29, 07 4:11 PM CDT
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Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom toe tap is only the latest in a seemingly endless string of scandal that has Republicans at wit's end, the NY Times reports. Such episodes are fueling voter suspicion of a party already tied to an unpopular president and the Iraq war. "We are approaching a level of ridiculousness," fumes one GOP activist.
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Some question why story wasn't released earlier
Idaho Statesman Aug 28, 07 8:22 AM CDT
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The Idaho Statesman today released the results of a five-month investigation into charges of sexual improprieties against Sen. Larry Craig—including an encounter in a Washington, D.C., train station described to the paper by the other man. The paper held the story for months after Craig denied the allegations. The senator's guilty plea Aug. 8 in charges stemming from another bathroom stall incident became public yesterday.
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Pled guilty in return for suspended jail term
Roll Call Aug 27, 07 10:47 PM CDT
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Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig was arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from a male plainclothes police officer in a men's room at Minneapolis airport June 11. The incident is spelled out in graphic detail in Roll Call , which obtained the arrest report. August 8th, Craig appeared in the Hennepin County District Court and pled guilty to disorderly conduct .
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Thompson split difference between partisanship and truth
New York Times Aug 27, 07 12:23 PM CDT
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With a critical role in several high-profile congressional investigations over three decades, Fred Thompson struggled to balance investigating targets and defending them. In its effort to illuminate the presidential hopeful’s political biography, the Times looks at Thompson’s role in the Watergate hearings, the probe into Reagan’s CIA chief, and the investigation of Clinton’s fund-raising scandals.
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Top anchor accuses
net of 'catastrophic
loss of nerve'
Guardian (UK) Aug 24, 07 1:04 PM CDT
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The Brits are having a crisis of conscience over the BBC: A summer of scandals has left the BBC's squeaky-clean image compromised. The UK's public broadcaster has aired rigged call-in games, sneakily edited news stories, and credulity-straining reality shows. A leading broadcaster charges the station has suffered "a catastrophic loss of nerve."
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