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...Assistant Director Chip Burrus, head of the Criminal Investigative Division, put the Ney plea deal in context, stressing that it is just part of a much wider federal crackdown on corruption. "The FBI is deeply committed to tackling corruption anywhere we find it-this is our promise to the American people, and corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority," he said. "We have more than 600 agents and dozens of analysts working more than 2200 investigations in all 56 field offices right now. Nationwide indictments are up 40 percent. In the past year alone, we have had over...
...men’s Nordic competition, sophomore Magnus Grimeland took 56th in the 10K Classic with a time of 36:40.3, followed by freshman Oliver Burrus in 57th, senior Russ Leino in 58th, freshmen Steve Amrock and Chris Nabel in 62nd and 64th, and junior Tom Gilmore in 65th. In the 20K Free Technique, Burrus finished 54th with a time of 1:00:23.1, followed by Grimeland in 58th, Leino in 59th, and Nabel in 63rd...
...conference call with workers last Wednesday, the day Manhattan employees started taking Cipro, William Burrus, incoming head of the American Postal Workers Union, tried to introduce his colleagues to their new job descriptions. "In a war, there are casualties," he told some 15,000 postal workers listening around the country. "In the past, we've viewed wars on television, and they've been sanitized and far away. But we are the battlefront...
Yunus is not the only Third World visionary to teach Americans to think more creatively about credit. "The U.S. is seven to eight years behind the rest of the world when it comes to lending to the poor," says William Burrus, executive director of Accion International, a private development organization in Cambridge, Mass. Accion has loaned $75 million to workers in Central and South America and created 100,000 permanent jobs. When Accion decided to widen its mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section...
...central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak as a mouthy matriarch and Bob Burrus as her sly brother-in-law. The other play of promise, Charlene Redick's slight but touching Autumn Elegy, depicts a man long withdrawn from the world and his protective wife, now fatally...