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...having my picture taken with the guy... I don't know him." At the time, White House officials also suggested that Abramoff had little influence or contact with them. The report cites more than 400 instances of Abramoff's team lobbying the White House. This is a one-sided account though, as it relies on e-mails from Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists; in many instances he discusses meals with White House senior advisers like Karl Rove, and it' s unclear if those ever actually took place. The White House has long maintained that Abramoff has exaggerated his ties...
...ability to bring inflation down from its current 5%. That rate is the only remaining impediment to Estonia adopting the euro as its currency. None of this has deterred investors. Foreign money is pouring in and now totals more than $12 billion. Companies partly or wholly owned by foreigners account for one-third of Estonia's total economy and more than 50% of exports. About three-quarters of the funds have come from just two countries, Finland and Sweden. Can the money continue flowing? Most seem to think it can, with at least one key caveat: Estonia needs to resolve...
...closing statements yesterday, Kelleher’s lawyer disputed Garcia and Haile’s account of the night, and said that there was not enough evidence to implicate his client...
...Scorcese’s “The Departed” boasts the skills of Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio while Emilio Estevez’s—who knew the Mighty Duck man himself was still around?—“Bobby,” an account of how RFK’s assassination affected various people’s lives, features just about every talented yet struggling actor in L.A. Personally, I’m waiting for the “WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping”-CGI-penguin feature, “Happy Feet...
...that he agreed with the emperor’s position, he was forced to issue a personal and public apology—just as Larry Summers had to do after he hypothesized at a conference last year that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” could account for the dearth of women scientists on the faculties of elite universities...