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John Lacey, a spokesperson for HMS, wrote in an e-mail that the federal audit was “routine,” indicating that the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), the branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which launched the investigation in March, had not been prompted by any initial suspicions of procedural failures...
...concealing the full story, the Pentagon showed Congress over 1,600 additional photographs of atrocities at Abu Ghraib. It is becoming clear that this developing scandal is not a matter of a few “bad apples,” but rather the fault of this entire executive branch. For these horrific acts and the cover-up that followed, we echo the call of others and ask Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign...
...will be ineffective, because local lenders may not heed Beijing's edicts. For a nation that was once completely command controlled, the central government has surprisingly few ways to compel regional lenders to obey orders. In Chengdu, for example, capital of Sichuan province 1,500 kilometers from Beijing, a branch of the China Construction Bank recently approved loans to upgrade a steel mill in the town of Panzhihua. Jiang Wen, chief of the bank's business-development department, says the mill already has local-government approval, so the bank is pushing ahead despite Beijing's jawboning. "We have...
...system also encourages first-years to reach out beyond their dorms. If they know that they have to live with the people from their entryway for three years, students will be more likely to confine their social circle to the people they live with on the Yard. Students who branch out beyond their entryway and develop close friendships with students from other dorms are punished by a system that might arbitrarily assign their closest friends to the Quad while they are stuck in Mather...
Summerton's public schools, on the other hand, became almost 99% black. They are still underfunded, spending just $5,600 a student, compared with the U.S. average of $7,524. The average combined SAT score at Scott's Branch High School is 761, the lowest in South Carolina. As a result, a new lawsuit to force the state to create more equitable means of financing public schools went to trial last year and is being heard in the same courthouse where Briggs started 53 years...