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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 25 Aug 06 - Finlay Arrested

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cassandra
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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 25 Aug 06 - Finlay Arrested

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Finlay Arrested, Charged
By ROBERTO GOODWIN

Sometime political candidate and prominent businessman Douglass Finlay has been taken into police custody and charged with influence peddling, invasion of privacy, and illegally acquiring unfair and unethical information to influence an electoral race, police say. According to Police Chief Eoin Morgan, the controversial documents leaked to the press by a campaign insider some months ago have been conclusively authenticated. These papers indicated that Finlay was promising favourable policies to business associates in order to garner their support for his candidacy. The police also found evidence in the campaign offices of various City Council members that showing that some preliminary work in setting up covert surveillance networks had, in fact, been completed.

Finlay again insisted that the charges are completely false, despite what the police are calling a "conclusive and indisputable body of evidence." In a press statement released from prison, Finlay said he planned to use the full force of his wealth and stature in the business community to prove his innocence. "Any spy networks or unethical business deals are news to me, and completely not my doing," he said. "I will not rest until I have discovered the truth behind this terrible affair."

Council Leader Camryn Scott considers Finlay just another casualty of politics. "I feel a deep regret that something like this could happen," she said. "It can be easy to lose sight of the objective significance of one's actions when one enters that ultimate game, politics. I do sympathise with [Finlay's] motivations, he's only human, just like the rest of us, and just as prone to error. And it can be difficult not to press a perceived advantage."

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Council Member Nathan Earlywine, meanwhile, had nothing but disgust to express toward Finlay's actions. "Those who would seek a council seat should hold themselves to only the highest moral and intellectual standards," he said. "The City Council is no place for those seeking to accrue base wealth or personal glory. ... We who sit here are the humblest servants of the people."

Finlay had been running for City Council Leader in the district currently represented by Roy Yolen, but dropped out of the race last week to focus on his legal concerns. Finlay has previously resigned from his post as co-founder of Finlay-McLennan, the leading supplier of home and personal care products, in order to seek political office.

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LETTERS

YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE ACADEMY

It would seem from recent articles featured in the Sentinel that public opinion of the Academy, and specifically of its Master, Sente Kiteway, has gone south in the days and weeks following the blackout. "The Academy can't be trusted", is the general outcry a reader would assume to be echoing throughout the streets of Perplex City.

What many in the vocal faction fail to realize is that we Cube Hunters here on Earth are functioning as an extension of the Academy. I can understand how many of the Sentinel's local readership might forget us, considering the fact that at best we are a group of people a whole world away from your own, and at worst an abstract fantasy concocted by the Academy to alleviate concern regarding the Cube.

But I promise you, we are quite real. And we are just as concerned as all of you are in regards to returning the Receda Cube to its rightful resting place.

Perhaps those who are decrying the Academy's policies and necessary secretiveness would do well to remember that when they claim that the Academy can't be trusted, they are by extension claiming that the people of Earth can't be trusted.

I feel the need to remind such people that without our assistance, the Cube would be just as lost now as it was two years ago. With the help of the Academy's puzzle scribes and Mind Candy, we are every day getting closer to discovering the whereabouts of the Cube. And when it is found, you can be sure that we will do whatever is necessary to return the artifact to your world.

The Academy cannot be trusted? Without the Academy and Master Kiteway's leadership, it is much more likely that the Cube will waste away somewhere on our world. Because without the Academy, there are no Cube Hunters here on Earth. Perhaps people should think a little bit before throwing about such insulting language. Because I for one am quite insulted that our efforts in locating the Cube seem to be so underappreciated.

And my wife wonders why I never read the newspaper...
Carda, Earth

Ed. Note: This letter has been chosen as the Sentinel's Star Letter of the Week. The author has accordingly received five points on the Perplexcity.com leaderboard, as will future recipients of the Letter of the Week prize.

I would like to thank the Sentinel for coming out and demanding the truth from the Academy. That institution has been self-governing for too long. How can we entrust such critical functions as the recovery of the Receda Cube to an organisation that has so little transparency in its decision-making processes. I have already written to the council expressing my disapproval, and you can be certain this issue will affect my vote in October.
Rebecca Morton

Over the years since the theft of the Receda Cube, the Earthbound division of the CRT have asked any number of times for an opening of books and hearts. Our search has been hampered on all sides by excessive secrecy on the part of your city and those inhabitants we have interacted with, with very few exceptions.

While it's certainly understandable that your Academy and council have secrets that may need to be kept, the search for the Cube would be made much easier if we had some further clue about what it is. A '10cm-by-10cm metallic cube with engravings on some sides', while perhaps helpful in the physical search, gives us no information about what it is that the Cube can do or why your world holds it in such high esteem.

Similarly, we are given only fragments of access to your city. A few articles weekly from the Sentinel (and tantalising headlines of what the rest of your paper must hold) and a scattered number of websites -- and those we must locate ourselves. While perhaps the latter is a test of our abilities to decipher the puzzles inevitably leading to the Cube itself, surely our search would go more swiftly if we were provided with the information we need?

And who, exactly, is behind this secrecy? Our dealings are with the Academy, and it is sometimes easy to forget that they are not the ruling entity of your world -- the Council must be involved in this somewhere along the line. While your most recent article (or at least the most recent one we can see) suggests the Council knows little about the Academy's workings, is this truth or could they, too, be hiding under layers of falsehoods?

Along with the Perplexian victims of this secrecy, we too ask for the truth -- but of whoever it is that is behind everything we do not know. The good relations between our worlds will likely prove difficult to maintain if all we can garner from your governing bodies are only fragments of the whole.
Achenar, Earth

It's easy to rail at the Academy for its so-called culture of secrecy, but simply attacking the Academy doesn't reach to the true culprit in this wreck. Sente Kiteway is not a man who operates in a vacuum. Instead, we must look to Camryn Scott and her disastrous policies encouraging excessive autonomy, not just in the Academy, but in all of the city's offices and agencies.

The only true way to correct this matter is remove Scott from her position as Council Leader, and the path to do this lies, of course, in voting for Nathan Earlywine. Councillor Earlywine already has a proposed policy of integrating more work under a single authority, both for better supervision and to benefit from the economies of scale that would naturally come to pass. Letters of protest can go only so far; votes for Councillor Earlywine as the Council Leader, on the other hand, will lead to lasting change.
Lorenzo Hamish

While I can tolerate and be open to the opinions and views of other, I must take exception to the author(s) of the Op/Ed article that implied negligence on the part of the Academy, and specifically allegations against the Master of the Academy, Sente Kiteway, in regards to the recent blackout in Perplex City.

It is understandable to question the validity of the statement that the blackout was caused by a wormhole that opened to Earth when it has been thought to be impossible. However, is it really a stretch to think that it is impossible for people to travel between the two worlds when the Receda Cube itself found its way here? If this is the case, is it not reasonable for the Academy and the CRT to remain silent on any specifics in case the perpetrators of the event were malicious in their intent?

I also was less than impressed with the Sentinel dismissing their journalistic integrity in order to feed the mob mentality placing the blame for the blackout at the feet of the Academy. By belittling Ms. Covington's position publicly, imparting blame for the blackout on the Academy without solid evidence, and promoting a letter writing campaign against the Academy, the Sentinel has abandoned its duty to the citizens of Perplex City to provide timely, accurate, UNBIASED news.
Raymond Pheris (rlp6028), Earth

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Further to Kate Brewster's article entitled 'OK13 Unlucky for some'.

It appears that for some time now the Sentinel has lost focus on the hunt for the Cube and instead seems more interested in feeding the ego of a complete fraud, namely Mr. Oliver Keers.

It is quite clear to anyone with even the smallest degree of intelligence that the 'solving blitz' Ms. Brewster describes is not the result of some amazing genius on the part of Mr. Keers. Rather, it is simply the systematic copying of answers posted by other Cube hunters in the various forums, a fact that is made all the more evident by Mr. Keers lack of significant 'first solves'. Indeed, it would appear that while Mr. Keers has an uncanny knack for obtaining puzzle cards before most other players, he has yet to solve any of the more difficult puzzles without assistance from the Cube hunting community.

As a long-time Cube Hunter I find it irritating and insulting that you continue to concentrate on this attention-seeking teenage fraudster and feel that your time would be better employed in covering the efforts of the entire Cube-hunting community or perhaps actually doing something yourselves to find this artifact that is of such great significance to your culture.
Sotiris Yiakoumi

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:14 am

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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

I didn't know they watched Monty Python is Perplex City!

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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:18 am

cassandra
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think they had our TV long before they could talk to us Wink

Question is really whether Earlywine set up Finlay, and whether anything can be done to stop this juggernaut of impending tyranny!

(heh. okay, so that's a little sensationalist. but likely a bit true.)

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:24 am

Mindez
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themandotcom wrote:

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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

I didn't know they watched Monty Python is Perplex City!

According to Adrian Hon, they've been listening to our radio waves and TV and stuff (Not our internet) for decades. They've only recently tried contacting us, when the Cube was stolen.

So it's quite possible =D

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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:43 am

Carda
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Star Letter of the Week? I'm shocked! Surprised!

Happy that I got an extra 5 points, since my access to puzzle cards has been woefully inadequate of late. ^_^;

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:04 pm

achenar
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Congrats, Carda. Smile

And wheee! Not bonus points, but I got in. This shouldn't be quite as exciting to me as it is, should it?

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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:59 pm

Merus
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Earlywine's 3P.

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:04 am

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