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Gonzalez chairs the House Banking Committee, which last week resumed hearings into whether the Administration is withholding information about U.S. policy toward Iraq. One matter before the committee involves a Justice Department investigation into charges that, in exchange for kickbacks and other payoffs, officials at the Atlanta branch of one of Italy's largest banks, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, made $4 billion in illicit loans to Iraq. Those include $350 million in defaulted loans backed by Agriculture Department guarantees. Christopher Drogoul, former manager of the Atlanta office, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of fraud and money...
...months after her husband Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, announced their separation, Winnie Mandela has had more bad news. The a.n.c. Women's League ousted the executive committee of the Johannesburg branch she headed, effectively dismissing her. South African newspapers also report the a.n.c. is looking into the loss of $130,000 from a department she directed until her resignation in April. The a.n.c. denied the story -- just as it had denied that the Mandelas were separating...
WEBER: The legislative process is important. But it would be pretty hard to talk me into running for a Legislative Branch office again. I've become a born-again believer in term limitations, for the opposite reasons from ((those of)) most of the voters. I think term limitations are probably not good for the country, not good for the institution, but they are good for the individual members...
...would have been disappointed if football had been the only thing I experienced at Harvard," says the two-time All-Ivy defensive end. "I like to think that I got a good mix. I tried to branch out and do other things outside of football...
...first few weeks in Cambridge, Quistshrugged off questions about his homeland withlight-hearted wisecracks. When asked about thehousing situation in Africa, he replied, "Oh,there is a real tree shortage these days. It'sgetting so crowded that whole families have toshare a branch...