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...continues to consume about $8 billion of the White House budget. That is bad enough considering the current economic conditions. But if the system is ever actually finalized and implemented, costs could rise to a staggering $238 billion by 2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The administration should abandon this infeasible and counterproductive project now and divert that money to more deserving and useful causes...
...would build without an underground passageway, city residents—and even city councillors—have had to resort to speculation. Perhaps the University would redesign the buildings and make them taller to compensate for having less space underground, some speculate. Others say they still hope Harvard will abandon the project altogether...
...Nigeria?s legislature began inquiries into the disaster, anger rose over the government?s past failure to move the armory away from civilians? homes. Hundreds of soldiers from the Ikeja barracks - where no one was reported killed in the blasts - jeered Vice President Atiku Abubakar, forcing him to abandon an attempt to address them. Early assertions that the explosions were set off by a fire spreading from a nearby market were "premature," said Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma. As the shaken, rumor-filled city grieved for its dead, the commander of the Ikeja barracks appeared on state television and denied that...
...what gave the brief letter its power was its overwhelming sense of doom. "Skilling is resigning now for 'personal reasons' but I would think he wasn't having fun, looked down the road and knew this stuff was unfixable and would rather abandon ship now than resign in shame in two years...
Later this year Bratt will star in Abandon, written and directed by Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan. Otherwise, his post-Julia life has become less public. He lives in San Francisco near his family and now has a relatively low-key romance with his Pinero co-star, Talisa Soto. "I have no particular career agenda," he says. "Your job as an actor is to stay employed." Thanks to Pinero, that job should be getting a lot easier...