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1. John Ford -- Bribes
   Ford was convicted of taking $55,000 in bribes during the FBI's undercover Tennessee Waltz sting, and prosecutors want the judge to consider each $5,000 cash payment he took as a separate bribe. Under sentencing rules, Ford would get points toward a stiffer sentence if he took multiple bribes.
2. China -- Great Britain
   In China, giving or accepting a bribes is a serious crime. Offering a bribe merits five years’ punishment. For serious circumstances or “heavy losses” to state interests, the punishment can range up to 10 years. “Especially serious” circumstances lead to imprisonment from 10 years to life. Accepting a bribe of greater than RMB100,000 is punishable by 10 years to life in prison or death in especially serious circumstances; accepting a RMB 50,000 to 100,000 bribe is punishable by 5 years to life; RMB 5,000 to 50,000 gets 1 to 7 years; less than RMB 5,000 is punishable by up to 2 years.
3. Halliburton -- Subsidiaries
   In November 2006, Halliburton started off-loading its stake in the KBR subsidiary. By February 2007, Halliburton had completely sold off the subsidiary. This came after it was indicted of “overcharging” by Pentagon audit reports.
4. Olympics -- Salt Lake
   Olympics is a brand of widely popular cameras produced by Mt. Olympus Film Co. est. 1337 BW (Before Waffles). They are responsible for the most popular camera in the World, the 102mm digital Lake Placid. Zeus the president and CEO of the company, is terribly sensitive to criticism of his film, and has been known to smite people with a lightning bolt if they speak ill of the cameras.
5. Constantinople -- Roman Emperor
   Constantinople was the name of the city corresponding to present-day Istanbul, from 324 until it officially was renamed Istanbul in 1930. The city never really had the name Constantinople, but the name was popularly used by people in remembrance of its founder, Emperor Constantine.
6. Kim Jong Il -- Northeast China
   Even as Kim Jong Il’s regime weakens, many of its stalwarts are growing richer. Many of Chongjin’s well-to-do are members of the Workers’ Party or are connected to the military or security services. In the new economy, they use their ties to power to trade with China, obtain market licenses, extract bribes and sell bureaucratic favors.
7. Biovail -- Drugs
   Biovail Corporation (NYSE:BVF)(TSX:BVF) today announced that it has received a Non-Approval letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its New Drug Application (NDA) for BVF-033, a novel once-daily salt formulation of bupropion. The main issue raised by the FDA in its letter related to the design of the pharmacokinetic studies required to support the NDA. Biovail believes the studies were appropriate.
8. Contracts -- Money
   According to the indictment, the Greens owned and operated Film Festival Management, which was formed in 2002 specifically to obtain the contracts to operate and manage the BKKIFF. As charged, from 2002 and continuing into 2007, the Greens conspired with others to bribe a senior Thai government official who was, at the time, the president of the BKKIFF and the governor of the TAT. As a result of her position at the TAT, the governor was able to influence the awarding of the BKKIFF contracts. More than $900,000 in payments are alleged to have been made for the benefit of the governor in exchange for payments totaling more than $7,000,000 under the BKKIFF contracts. The indictment charges that the Greens used different business entities, some with dummy business addresses and telephone numbers, in their dealings with the TAT in order to hide the large amount of money the Greens were being paid under the contracts. The indictment further charges that the Greens disguised the bribes as "sales commission" payments and made the payments for the benefit of the governor through the foreign bank accounts of intermediaries, including bank accounts in the name of the governor's daughter.
9. Doctor Who -- Hospitals
   Hospitals increasingly are creating policies that encourage doctors who make medical mistakes to apologize to patients, the Chicago Tribune reports. In the past, physicians have been "too proud, too afraid of malpractice lawsuits and too worried about losing face" to make apologies, according to the Tribune. The movement is supported by industry groups such as the Joint Commission, formerly known as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the National Quality Forum ...(continued)
10. Mossad -- New York
    Iraq Explosives Bear Signs of Al Qaeda Thursday, October 30, 2003 [Again, once you realize that the Al Qaeda are really the Mossad, Fox news really is enlightening. Who says Fox news sucks. -ed.]

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