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...Federal Accountability Act is item No. 1 on the Tories' list of campaign priorities. The long-mooted set of initiatives, which includes stringent controls over lobbying and government appointments and stricter limits on campaign contributions, could be tabled fairly quickly in the new House of Commons, which may begin sitting in mid-March. Given the lingering anger over the sponsorship scandal, says former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, "I can't see anybody in that Parliament voting against that in principle." The bill's final form, though, will have to take into account the recommendations in Justice John Gomery...
...impress the judges. Gone is the punitive 6.0 system, in which the athletes start with the maximum score of perfection and lose points for mistakes and poorly executed skills or because the French judge doesn't like magenta. In its place is a cumulative system in which skaters begin with a blank slate and accumulate points, depending on the elements they complete...
...week. Coria fled the Hamptons abruptly last year in the middle of the busy summer season to recuperate in Tuxpan. Once a week, he makes the six-hour round-trip drive to see a therapist in Mexico City. He's planning on returning to the Hamptons in March to begin buying seeds and drawing up plans for his clients' summer 2006 gardens. But even if he goes back, he says, he doesn't think he can spend more than two additional seasons in the Hamptons. "Walking the streets of Tuxpan, I know who I am," he says. "Over there, even...
...cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured on Sunday in a roadside bombing while traveling with a U.S. army convoy in Taji, an insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad. Woodruff and Vogt had left their U.S. Army Humvee and had climbed into the turret of an Iraqi armored vehicle to begin filming when a powerful, remote-controlled explosion ripped through their armored vehicle. ABC news reported that the group then came under fire from insurgents. Once the firefight stopped, Woodruff and Vogt were rushed by helicopter to a U.S military hospital near Baghdad. Doctors judged that Woodruff's head injuries were...
...sign of the haste with which Kirby’s resignation was announced, an e-mail address, fasdeansearch@harvard.edu, established to solicit advice and nominations, was not operational early Saturday morning. Summers noted in his letter that the e-mail address would begin working...