Magnificent Mind at Any Age
Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential
chapter 1
a scandal for our time
In the early hours of February 22, 2004—a cool, clear, late-winter day —copies of the fat Sunday edition of The Washington Post landed on doorsteps and driveways throughout the nation’s capital and its booming suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. Near the top of the front page, an arresting headline announced a scoop:
a jackpot from indian gaming tribes lobbying, pr firms paid $45 million over 3 years
This was a seductive come-on in a city where making money was in vogue, and the story lived up to the enticement. The Post reported startling details about the exploits of a lobbyist named Jack Abramoff, then forty-six, and a public relations man who collaborated with him, Michael Scanlon, thirty-three. They had persuaded four Indian tribes flush with gambling money to pay huge fees to exploit Abramoff’s connections with conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress to protect the tribes’ interests. At Abramoff’s urging, the tribes also hired Scanlon to do unspec ...
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