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...BILLION Amount members of Congress set aside last year for pork-barrel projects in their states, according to a study released by Citizens Against Government Waste...
...American demonstrations in Cairo, Beirut, Amman and other Middle Eastern capitals were making it impossible for Washington's Arab allies to stay on the fence. Egypt cut some ties with Israel and warned the White House that the rest could be in jeopardy. Oil prices spiked to $28 a barrel, and the stock market plunged. Anti-Semites vandalized synagogues in France and Belgium. American embassies cabled Washington that they might be the next targets. And White House officials were poring over satellite pictures from the region: Syria was moving its troops in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in anticipation...
...friends of mine had at Longy School of Music illuminates the real drawing points of looking outside of Harvard: The name actually does mean something. Phone numbers and propositions were handed back as fast as drinks were handed out—it was like shooting fish in a barrel...
McCain also wants to halt a practice Congress holds dear--"earmarking" federal funds in budgets for pork-barrel projects back home. The appropriations bills for 2002 have more than 7,800 earmarks. The waste "has become outrageous and obscene," says McCain. Earmarks in the 2002 defense bill, which he calls "war profiteering," would cost $3.6 billion...
Iraq's call Tuesday for a rerun of that 70s embargo - and Iran's helpful tips on how it might work - put a scare into Wall Street with the specter of $50-a-barrel oil prices throttling the global economic recovery in its swaddling clothes. But by Wednesday the rest of the Arab world was quietly making it known that they're not about to let a policy disagreement get in the way of a good buck...