Sex scandal threatens career of rising political star.
March 25, 2008
Kwame Kilpatrick, who wore a diamond earring and won election in Detroit in 2001 as the youngest big-city mayor in the United States, has been charged with eight felonies in an obstruction case that could end his once-promising career.
The prosecutor Kym Worthy said Kilpatrick, 37, lied to a jury and settled a whistleblower lawsuit with $US8.4 million ($9.2 million) in tax dollars to hide an affair with his chief of staff. If convicted, the politician once dubbed the “playah mayah”, will lose his job and could face jail.
What about his wife?
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Italians Top For Holiday Romances
March 23, 2008
ITALIANS really are stallions for women when it comes to love on holiday. And men fantasise most about Sophia Loren-type Italian women for a far-flung fling, according to a survey. Around 700 people were asked which nationality they would be most attracted to if they were single.
Fellow Britons were second on the list for both sexes, while Turkish and Caribbean are a turn-off. Colin Shaddick, of Continental Research, who commissioned the study, said: “Men and women said either Italians or British were the top nationalities they would most fancy a fling with.
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