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...holds the majority-enforce the ethics rules each chamber sets up to govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a congressman or an aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.? In more extreme cases, they investigate colleagues...
...approved by all parties, the new deal would allow Bush to avert a GOP-driven bill to overturn the Dubai deal with enough votes to override Bush's threat of his first veto. Republican sources tell TIME that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee proposed the basic terms of a deal designed to give the White House a graceful way out, while also allaying the concerns of the many lawmakers in both parties who have said the deal could be a threat to our security. Under the Frist plan, the deal could stand a good chance of ultimately going...
...P.O.W.W.!” (an acronym for the play cleverly disguised as Batman-esque onomatopoeia). The flyers featured two panels with stylized Lichtenstein drawings, one with the necessary information about auditions, the other attempting to move the play beyond early-twentieth century provincialism by emphasizing its basic draws: “Sex, Lies, and Patricide—in Beautiful Ireland!” Still, whatever the visceral appeal of the play, Spillane-Hinks maintains a strict professionalism throughout the process. Auditions begin Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the Agassiz’ high-ceilinged Horner Room, which, with its wood floors, chandeliers...
...biggest challenge these days is getting more young people like Wang to apply. The recruits lining up for basic training each year are barely enough to replace the troops filing out the gates. Despite efforts to build it up, the 52,000-strong adf is no bigger than it was in 2002; last year it grew by just 70 members. Yet over the next decade the military must find an extra 2,500 troops. "The adf can't do the things we need it to do," says Neil James, head of the Australia Defence Association, a national-security lobby group...
Like Summers’ comments about Israel, the basic message about Darfur took advantage of the gravitas of the Harvard name. While the United Nations waffled on what word to apply to the mass murder, displacement, and rape going on in the Sudan, Harvard stated that the genocide in Darfur was something the University took very seriously. And, indeed, one of the most powerful statements Harvard can make is nominating what things we, as a society, should take seriously...