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Junker’s attorney, Steve Dichter, said via e-mail that his client did not have access to the report before it was made public. He said the document was being studied before it was determined whether Junker would comment.
The 276-page report of an investigation conducted by Fiesta Bowl board members and a retired Arizona Supreme Court justice was published on the bowl’s website fiestabowl.org.
The investigators said they found the “apparent scheme” to reimburse at least $46,539 for employees’ political contributions.
The probe also found “an apparent conspiracy to conceal the reimbursement scheme from the bowl’s board of directors and state officials,” according to the news release accompanying the report.
Among the many expenditures questioned was the 50th birthday celebration for Junker paid for by the Fiesta Bowl at a cost of $33,188 at Pebble Beach, Calif., his car allowance, and paid membership in four elite private golf clubs. There also was a $1,200 trip for Junker and two others to a Phoenix strip club.

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Tattle: A bachelor party fit for a princeMarch 29, 2011|By Howard Gensler
FAR FROM the cameras of the U.K.’s voracious tabloid press and thousands of miles from the shaded eyes of Tattle, Prince William bid his single life goodbye in a bachelor party reportedly held in eastern England over the weekend.Palace officials confirmed yesterday only that the stag party – reportedly thrown by his brother and best man, Prince Harry – had taken place.”It has happened,” a spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We are not giving any details.”And no, we had no idea that the strippers were actually trannies.That wasn’t the palace talking, just some idle Tattle speculation.
The Daily Telegraph, which broke the news of the shindig, said the prince and about 20 friends attended a weekend party believed to be at a Norfolk estate owned by a guest’s father.

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But not just any defense – the defense for Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi’s lawyers yesterday named Clooney and the Italian foreign minister and a chorus line of showgirls as witnesses at the premier’s prostitution trial, an attorney and news reports said.
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It’s the porn version of “Rashomon.”Both sides presented their lists of witnesses at the Milan tribunal where the trial opens next week. A judge must now decide which witnesses to admit.Berlusconi, a still-virile 74, is accused of having paid for sex with the Moroccan, who is known as “Ruby” (a/k/a Karima el-Mahroug) and was 17 at the time, and then using his influence to try to cover it up. The premier denies wrongdoing.In fact, he claims, he was very good.Clooney was listed because “Ruby” once said she had seen him and his Italian girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, at one of Berlusconi’s parties, according to the law firm that is representing Berlusconi.”We want to see if they confirm this fact or not,” said attorney Piersilvio Cipollotti.According …

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But the records indicate that just as the experiment was buried by government medical officials in the United States, it was also known and then apparently forgotten in Guatemala.
Indeed, it was a Guatemalan who first proposed the country as a setting for the research. The idea came from Juan Funes, chief of the venereal-disease-control division of Guatemala’s national health service, who had been assigned to a public health lab in New York for a year, Cutler wrote in a summary of the study.
From 1946-48, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau worked with several Guatemalan government agencies to do studies – paid for by the U.S. government – involving deliberately exposing test subjects to sexually transmitted diseases. Researchers tried to infect about 700 prostitutes, prisoners, and mental patients with syphilis. About 770 tests subjects, including soldiers, were exposed to gonorrhea.

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Libya says ‘rape victim’is safe and a ‘prostitute‘March 28, 2011|Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya – A woman who rushed into a hotel to tell foreign reporters that Libyan troops had raped her is free and with her family, the government said yesterday.
Iman al-Obeidi was tackled by waitresses and government minders as she told her story to journalists Saturday after running into the hotel where many are staying. She said that troops had detained her at a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her, then led her away to be gang-raped.
The government says four men were interrogated in the case, including the son of a high-ranking state official.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim claimed in an interview with the Associated Press that the woman was a “prostitute” who refused to undergo a medical examination, and that she is now with her sister in the Libyan capital.

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Gabe Spiegel, a former anchor with Columbus’s WSYX and WTTE, appeared in court this week to testify in the trial of his friend Edward Scott Miller, who is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of a bicyclist he struck during an all-night partying binge with Spiegel.
Miller was giving Spiegel a ride home in July of 2009, after an early morning outing at a strip club, when his car struck a bicyclist shortly before 6:00 a.m. The bicyclist, who was wearing a helmet at the time, died four days later from head injuries suffered in the accident.
Spiegel testified that he and Miller discussed calling a cab upon leaving the strip club, but ultimately decided that Miller was okay to drive. According to The Columbus Dispatch, when the prosecution asked Spiegel if he thought Miller was “in a condition to drive,” he answered, “No question.”

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Sounds pretty tedious, but certainly not as toxic as using chemical strippers. The website above recommends a soy-based stripper that is spread on the concrete or brick and allowed to work before you remove it.
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Replacing the wooden steps was always the best solution, but if the wood is in good shape, try using a nontoxic stripper or a belt sander (starting with coarse for removal and ending with fine for primer or paint preparation). I use a tack cloth after the fine sanding to pick up all the dust, and I always sand between coats of paint.
I once had to deal with interior yellow pine floors that had been stripped of their original finish, then painted with gray, oil-based, glossy deck paint. Even after I had sanded with a machine, the paint was embedded so deeply in some of the grooves in the boards that I had to use Q-tips dipped in stripper, and ended up filling the deeper ones with wood paste.

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Nicholas D. Kristof
Sheryl WuDunn
with the inaugural Stowe Prize. Developed in honor of
Harriet Beecher Stowe
and the impact she made with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Stowe Prize recognizes writing that targets social justice issues.
Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, changed how Americans thought about slavery in the mid-1800s, galvanizing the antislavery movement before the Civil War and creating an international outcry for abolition in the United States. Today the Stowe Center uses Stowe’s story to link history to contemporary issues and inspire understanding and action.
Kristof and WuDunn’s critically acclaimed book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, shares Stowe’s strategy of motivating action by telling stories. The book highlights three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence including honor killings and mass rape.

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Nicholas D. Kristof
Sheryl WuDunn
with the inaugural Stowe Prize. Developed in honor of
Harriet Beecher Stowe
and the impact she made with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Stowe Prize recognizes writing that targets social justice issues.
Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, changed how Americans thought about slavery in the mid-1800s, galvanizing the antislavery movement before the Civil War and creating an international outcry for abolition in the United States. Today the Stowe Center uses Stowe’s story to link history to contemporary issues and inspire understanding and action.
Kristof and WuDunn’s critically acclaimed book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, shares Stowe’s strategy of motivating action by telling stories. The book highlights three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence including honor killings and mass rape.

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The FBI has already served search warrants at two Essington Avenue strip clubs. Investigators are looking into allegations the clubs did business with a South Philadelphia beer distributorship owned in part by Verdi and disbarred attorney Gregory Quigley in return for favorable treatment from L and I.
Now sources say investigators are looking into allegations about L and I activity at three more night spots.
One is on South Street, another that was shut down by l and I on Rittenhouse Square and a club at 21st and Market. All three have had problems with the city’s Nuisance Task Force that Verdi was a part of.
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Sources say the grand jury is looking at Verdi, some strip club owners and police. They are expected to hear from at least two of Verdi’s family members.
One relative worked for the beer distributorship, another for one of the strip clubs.

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