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When the hundreds of thousands of Penn State alumni hear the name JoePa, they think of moral leadership, of the kind of person they aspire to be. Of his warmth, his fatherliness, his steadiness, and his granite character. Joe Paterno was for hundreds of thousands of alumni the very model of the moral ideal of Western humanism. Hundreds of thousands of alumni think a huge injustice was committed against JoePa by the board of trustees, and they have emphatically expressed their sentiments to the new interim president of Penn State during his coast-to-coast series of alumni meetings to damp down...

(This is kind of a long read, but very interesting.) The original frmat is probably superior to my formatting abilities. - Here http://www.gopvideo.com/2006june/missouri_democrats_media_scandal.html Missouri Democrats and their Unreported Abuses of State Power In Bed with Jimmy Carter, AARP and the State's Largest Newspapers 6/2/2006 Missouri Democrat Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State, Shielded from Scandal by the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch GOP Video News Focus The Temple-Carter-AARP-Carnahan emails [pdf] Missouri Politics, Who's Who: Jason J. Carter, President Carter's Grandson, Attorney, Law Firm website Profile Robin Carnahan, Missouri Secretary of State, daughter of former US Senator Jean Carnahan...

For three years, Memphis police made drug arrests, dutifully gave the drugs to property room workers and waited to make their cases in court. They had no idea those workers were wheeling those same drugs right back out the door -- right back onto the street. Now, almost three months after a drug lord who sold more than a half-ton of that cocaine earned a 24-year prison term, the scope of the property room case is clearer. It netted more than 100 people, including one part-time judge and two workers who took more than $100,000 to look the other way....

The German baby-formula manufacturer Humana is now admitting that "human errors" led to the vitamin B1 deficiency in its product that killed two Israeli babies and caused neurological damage to many more. What is a "human error"? According to Humana, a recipe change necessitated bringing down the B1 level in their baby formula, but they accidentally reduced far too much. The new product was then shipped before the full quality-control tests had been completed. The first error, misestimating the effect of a change in the formula, fits the commonsense idea of a human error: a mistake that normal, even competent,...

Sunday July 21, 2002; 12:33 p.m. EDTLou Dobbs: Clinton SEC Turned Blind Eye to Enron Though Democrats blame the recent wave of corporate scandals on Bush Securities and Exchange Commission chief Harvey Pitt, in reality it was the Clinton SEC that a turned a blind eye to the spreading corporate corruption of the late 1990's. That's the contention of respected CNN moneyman Lou Dobbs, who revealed Saturday that the SEC didn't even bother examining collapsed energy giant Enron's financial data for the last three years of the Clinton administration. "You may not know this," Dobbs told WABC Radio's Mark...