Scandal

Bt Profits Dive In Wake Of Italian Scandal

... BT boss Gavin Patterson. Demand for faster broadband delivered an all-time record 498,000 new fibre connections for Openreach, the unit responsible for BT's fixed line network, which is also used by Sky and Talk Talk. BT's retail business accounted for more than half of the total. Gavin Patterson, BT's embattled chief executive, said the misconduct in Italy has "no place at BT, and it undermines the good work we're doing elsewhere in the group". Did you know? | BT in numbers. He sounded a conciliatory tone on the long-running row with Ofcom over the future of Openreach, saying he believed a settlement could be reached over the governance of a more autonomous network unit. The regulator is due to apply to the European Commission to impose reforms in the next three months if a deal is not struck, threatening years of legal ...

The Final Obama Scandal

... the extraordinarily close ties between al Qaeda and the Taliban. At the time, the administration was pushing for "peace" talks with the Taliban, on the premise that the Taliban was more moderate than al Qaeda and might be encouraged to play a positive role in the future of Afghanistan. The main goal of the nascent negotiations was to persuade the Taliban to renounce its longtime alliance with al Qaeda. But the documents collected in the Abbottabad raid included many that clearly showed the intimacy of the Taliban-al Qaeda relationship (there were individuals with leadership roles in both organizations). Some of those documents were to have been included in the first document release in 2012. But when the White House learned that the documents could undermine support for talks with the Taliban, senior National Security Council staffer Lt. Gen. Doug Lute called West Point and had the documents withheld. Given the abject failure of those talks and the subsequent embarrassing revelations about the administration's handling of them, perhaps it would have been better in the end if they'd never taken ...

Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Football Rape Scandal More Widespread Than Reported

... to strengthen the safety and security of all students and restore faith in the University.”. John Clune, a Colorado attorney representing Doe, released a statement via email. “We have been working with Baylor on these football cases since the start of this, and though we have appreciated their efforts to fix the problems, this is one that needed to be filed,” Clune wrote. “As hard as the events at Baylor have been for people to hear, what went on there was much worse than has been reported. We do still appreciate the progress that Baylor has made and know that the school will be a better place when this case is over.”. Baylor athletics officials created a “culture of sexual violence,” the lawsuit alleged, by using the promise of sex to entice top football recruits. “Do you like white women?” one Baylor assistant asked a recruit from Dallas, the complaint alleged. “Because we have a lot of them at Baylor, and they love football players.”. The Baylor Bruins, the school’s female hostess program, figured prominently into this culture of sexual violence, the complaint alleged. Doe, the plaintiff, was a member of ...

True To Form, Scandal Does The Opposite Of What We Expect

... race is over.”. Lacking red wine, popcorn and a white couch to collapse onto, they adjourn to a spacious bathroom. Mellie pours herself into the empty tub, soaking her agony in Champagne swigged from a bottle she shares with Olivia, her former foe. “I will be gracious,” Mellie says between gulps, “out there. In here, I am spiteful and petty.”. Right there with you, sister. Even in that moment Rhimes dispensed with the notion of doing what some viewers may have wanted with this alternate reality within her alternate reality: writing an entirely plausible scenario of what could happen next. Fate tends to be unkind in the world of “Scandal.” And she definitely isn’t kind enough to favor for long a figure such as Vargas, a veteran, a loyal family man and a true centrist. He’s a pro-choice Democrat who supports the Second Amendment. He’s religious but also believes in science. And the audience will never get to find out what kind of leader he would make because he’s assassinated in the midst of his victory speech. Fitz’s spokesman keeps news of the president-elect’s death under wraps for as long as he ...

Scoop On 'supernatural,' 'scandal,' 'hawaii Five-0' And More

... and love between them. I’m glad you’re still thinking about it. I’m not going to necessarily say it will ever mean one thing.”. Can you say anything about the upcoming Earth-2 Flash episode with Grodd? — Keri. Here’s what we know: Gorilla Grodd will be wreaking havoc on Central City, and the two-parter will take place on both Earths — but Grodd isn’t the only familiar face that’ll appear on Earth-2. “The team will go to Gorilla City,” executive producer Aaron Helbing reveals. “We’ll see where Grodd was sent. We’ll see his standing amongst the other gorillas. There are some sequences in the two episodes that are unbelievable. They’re epic and unbelievable in scale and scope. I’ve never seen anything like it on television.”. Did you ask Jessica Capshaw how Arizona will react to Alex possibly going to jail on Grey’s Anatomy? — Fernando. Yes! And it’s safe to say that Arizona will not handle her protégé’s potential imprisonment well. “Since the very beginning, when Arizona came back [from New York] and was away when the sh– hit the fan, her coming back and trying to understand how this even happened, and if she had to pick a side, which side would that be and what to ...

Abuse Scandal At German Military Training Center

... were widespread at the Staufer barracks. Trainers allegedly forced recruits to perform medically unnecessary and sexually motivated acts and bizarre initiation rituals were reported to be common practice, including forcing fellow soldiers to remain tied to a chair for hours while hosing them down with water. Military officials and defense minister Ursula von der Leyen were quick to condemn this behavior and promised an in-depth investigation. The probe will include whether leaders at the training center had actively encouraged or participated in abusive rituals. Seven soldiers charged, five officers demoted. Soldiers at a military training center were allegedly subjected to violent rituals and sexual abuse. So far, German military authorities have filed criminal charges against seven soldiers, according to the federal ministry of defense. The soldiers have been accused of unlawful detention, criminal assault and coercion. Five leading officers at Staufer were demoted in order to "allow for a new start," according to the ministry. Von der Leyen ...