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...Gulf last week, some of FEMA's bumbling could have been an attempt to compensate for its haste last year after Hurricane Frances struck Florida. The agency ran afoul of federal auditors after it paid $31 million to residents of Miami-Dade, which was 100 miles south of the hurricane...
...distributor of Michael Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” pulled some of its ads for the film before the Republican National Convention. Why? The ads had featured President Bush hitting a golf ball. The mere image of Bush in the ad ran afoul of McCain-Feingold...
...senior foreign-policy advisers to read it. First published in English in 2001, Aquariums is a coming-of-age tale of almost unimaginable misery. Kang, now a 36-year-old journalist and human-rights activist in Seoul, was incarcerated at age 9 after his wealthy grandfather ran afoul of the regime; in 1977 the family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang spent the next 10 years there. His book recalls occasional moments of childhood normality?Kang played in the woods, and writes of his astonishment at seeing a bear. But Aquariums is mostly...
...Abramoff's office-for expensive hotel rooms, and even tickets to the "Lion King." Two sources say the London trip itself was the idea of DeLay's staff, not Abramoff or the non-profit National Center for Public Policy Research, where Abramoff was a board member. That could run afoul of House ethics rules that prohibit lawmakers and their staffs from soliciting gifts from lobbyists. And TIME reported last week that top members of DeLay's staff accepted expensive gifts from Abramoff, also in apparent violation of House ethics rules. Among those gifts, sources say, were high-end golf equipment...
...DeLay's smoke may have run afoul of his principles, but it did not violate U.S. regulations at the time. However, it would now. Last September, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control tightened its prohibitions against U.S. citizens importing or consuming Cuban cigars. Even Americans licensed to bring back up to $100 worth of Cuban goods are no longer allowed to include tobacco products in what they carry. The regulation also noted that Americans are barred not only from purchasing Cuban goods in foreign countries, but also from consuming them in those countries...