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...presidential suites, adding to the choice of top-end berths in the Lion City. Perched high above the throngs of Orchard Road, these[an error occurred while processing this directive] palatial aeries can be expanded from one to four bedrooms if you're traveling with an entourage of, say, Cabinet Ministers, groupies or bodyguards. The suites were conceived by Santa Monica?based architect and designer Beatrice Girelli to a contemporary brief - furnishings are deliberately understated, and the color palette kept to a soothing selection of cream, chocolate and olive...
...lugging your bags through the airport to catch a flight on a commercial airline, this should warm your heart. Since 2001, Bush cabinet secretaries and top agency officials have flown on cushier and costlier private aircraft at least 125 times to over 300 locations. And not surprisingly, a political squabble has broken out between Republicans and Democrats over whether the taxpayers' bill for this more convenient form of travel - over $1.5 million - is justified...
...letter Wednesday to the Office of Management and Budget, Rep. Henry Waxman, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, claims that Bush Administration cabinet officers have "routinely flaunted" the rules governing the use of private planes. Traveling on private planes and helicopters, he complains, always seems to spike around election time. During the 2004 campaign, travel on private aircraft to cities in battleground states "was over four times higher than in non-election years," says Waxman. In October 2004, for example, then Education Secretary Rodney Paige spent $50,290 on private jet travel in three key states - Pennsylvania...
...commercial carrier. Travel for speeches, to attend conferences or for routine field inspections doesn't justify a private plane, according to Waxman's reading of the regulations. The $1.5 million spent over five years may not sound like much, but "there's no reason for somebody in the cabinet to use private jets unless it's urgent," says Alex Knott, political editor for the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington watchdog group. "A lot of people would look at it as a misuse of taxpayer dollars...
...unlikely, even desperate courtship, born of one partner's need and an opportunity for the other. But despite the warnings and protests of skeptics, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has drawn radical right-winger Avigdor Lieberman into his coalition cabinet...