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...Congress alone isn't to blame for the skewed funding. The Executive Branch was left with exceptional leeway to spend the remaining 60% of the funds any which way--including according to risk. But first in 2002 and then again in 2003 and 2004, under the newly created Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Branch just split the money according to each state's population...
Ordinarily, someone in Foster’s job would have gone straight to Congressional representatives with his news. Indeed, the Medicare actuary’s office has a “tradition of dealing directly with the legislative branch.” And after all, senators and representatives were about to vote on a bill that actually cost 37 percent more than they were told...
...under arms, divided into two major groups. One, the Jaish al-Mahdi, is aligned with the firebrand radical Muqtada al-Sadr and posts its secretive fighters at his Baghdad strongholds. "Every day people are coming in to volunteer," Sheik Rada al-Zubeidy, who runs one of al-Sadr's branch offices, told TIME last week. An even larger militia called the Badr Organization reports to the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Shi'ite's major political party. These fighters conducted anti-Saddam guerrilla operations from bases in Iran for years and have emerged to protect holy...
Since the ImClone troubles first surfaced, the company has made efforts to play down Stewart's role, cutting back on photos of her in its flagship publication, Martha Stewart Living. But the vast majority of the business is still plastered with the name Martha Stewart, and the efforts to branch out are late in coming...
Later in the day former Sen. Bill Bradley and Paul Jansen, both of whom guide McKinsey & Company’s non-profit consulting branch, expressed their deep commitment to the values of social service work, and their high expectations for those striving to improve society...