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...White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was among the six winners last week of the 2005 Innovations in American Government Award, a $100,000 prize awarded by the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to promote efficiency in government...
...statement last Wednesday, President Bush said, “I congratulate the hard-working employees at OMB for winning this award...We are changing the way the Federal government thinks about program management and budgeting...
...that the industry has been really rattled lately with a lot of scandals and questions of credibility and this might be a case where newspaper executives, perhaps with good intentions, worried about the credibility of their product and overreacted.? ?The whole thing is very surreal,? says Linda Robertson, an award winning sports columnist at the Herald. ?People have done things much worse than Jim DeFede and they are still working...
...SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction contract. Deuba has denounced the verdict as "political assassination" and has vowed to fight his conviction. He is the highest-ranking Nepalese leader ever to be found guilty of corruption...
...future stars early in their careers to play in his backing bands, inspiring them with his dedication and music. (Elton John, born Reginald Dwight, even chose his surname in honor of Baldry.) He recorded more than 40 albums and also had a successful voiceover career, receiving a 1998 Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children with The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh...