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...controversial display opened this week, after years of local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building, built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not consulted on the plans...
Except for a four-year break, Peter MacDonald Sr. has ruled the 200,000-member Navajo nation as its strong-willed chairman ever since 1970. Presiding over a Southwest desert reservation larger in area than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, he has lived well on his $55,000 annual salary plus, according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted...
...suburban Orange County, Elise and Rick Petree, engineers with a combined annual salary of $70,000, used an increasingly popular technique known as equity sharing. A private investor put up $22,950 for their down payment, and a local firm called CoEquity, which pioneered such deals in the area, provided $12,200. The Petrees invested $10,000 and now make $2,220 in monthly payments, including $1,872 to the mortgage lender, $229 to the investor and the rest to CoEquity. The investor, typically a wealthy individual, can claim 50% of the profits when the home is sold...
...There is an area where there used to be a cargo door and it's not there any more," said Eugene Glenn, special agent in charge of the Honolulu FBI office. But Glenn said it was not known whether the loss of the cargo door was a cause of the accident or a result...
...about campus security is the only thing that will prevent Harvard from providing a safer work environment for faculty, staff and students. The Science Center is a Harvard facility, and the University has a responsibility to ensure that working there is safe, particularly since it is the only study area with 24-hour access...