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Officials said that there are thousands of contract employees working for the State Department, and that when they are hired, they are given basic background checks - for instance, looking at whether they have a police record. The department, however, asks no questions regarding their political backgrounds or activities...
...school bully, hire a bodyguard to protect them. He turns out to be not the special forces vet he claims to be, but a homeless man - physically inept and cowardly to boot. The only thing Drillbit Taylor neglects is to make any sort of comic capital out of a basic situation that a lot of people - not all of them currently afflicted by acne - have endured in life. Mostly the kids (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David Dorfman) are humiliated in a lot of unfunny ways while Drillbit, pretending to be a substitute teacher, tries to stay above the fray...
...interrogation and possible torture of a pair of al-Qaeda suspects. Scores of other spies with their own potential legal problems are also believed to have purchased coverage, but their identities are not public. Wright & Co. of Arlington, Va., the company that sells most of the insurance, says a basic plan costs about $300 annually. That pays for up to $1 million worth of court judgments or settlements, up to $100,000 for a criminal defense, and as much as $200,000 for a civil defense or penalties in an administrative proceeding...
Whenever I spend time in villages like Denchira, I draw from my childhood memories in rural Georgia. I know that when farmers are ill, their families and communities suffer as well. I'm also aware that proper health care is a basic human right, thanks to the superb treatment I received at a clinic in my hometown of Plains and the abiding example of my mother Lillian. A registered nurse, she taught me that lesson every time she ministered, free of charge when necessary, to any person, black or white, in the segregated South of my youth...
...years ago, "in spite of my open approach of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." The violence that broke out recently was a harrowing reminder of the fact that 98% of Tibetans have no access to their leader and are denied the most basic of freedoms. And in return for talking of interdependence and the need to stop even thinking in terms of enemies, the Dalai Lama is known in Beijing as a "splittist" and the "enemy of the Tibetan people...