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...lightly classified bulletin sent to 18,000 state and local agencies last week advised local authorities to look out for plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and other waterborne flotsam commonly seen around marinas that could be rigged to blow up on contact. Also, the bulletin warned, terrorists might attach bombs to buoys. FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs. But some officials believe al-Qaeda may be focusing on harbors and shipping channels in an effort to replicate...
...file retaliatory complaints against Democrats, though DeLay told reporters, "I do not encourage anyone to file complaints." Democratic leaders, who claim they had no role in Bell's action, also were eager to keep the conflict contained. Meanwhile, G.O.P. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois says he will try to attach an amendment to a funding bill that would retroactively prohibit Bell or any other departing House member from filing an ethics complaint. Says LaHood: "I don't think we should be allowing members to throw a Molotov cocktail as they walk out the door...
...compensation issue played out loudly in local newspapers, Harvard quietly began an entirely separate program intended to boost gifts of charitable remainder trusts by allowing donors to attach those trusts to the University endowment...
Harvard has long offered the option of charitable trusts for its donors, but sluggish returns made the program less appealing. Thanks to a special ruling by the Internal Revenue Service, however, Harvard began allowing its donors with charitable trusts to attach those funds to the University’s lucrative endowment in the hopes of greater returns for both the donor and Harvard...
Would that Valentin had a touch of that strangeness. Played by relentlessly adorable Rodrigo Noya, 8-year-old Valentin lives in 1960s Buenos Airesdeserted by his mother, ignored by his philandering father and boarding with his cranky, sickly grandma. Eventually, he more or less invents a family to attach himself to. But this is not The 400 Blows. Director-writer Alejandro Agresti flat out denies the implicit--and, yes, existential--terrors of this child's desperately improvised life. Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have--while the rest...