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...This year the academy will serve about 350 students. But officials say in future years the University will commit additional funds to add science and other course offerings and will increase the number of students who attend the summer school...
...earlier. What is necessary at the federal level is leadership. We ask President George W. Bush to articulate the national interest in international education, set goals for our nation and call us together-federal officials, governors, educators, exchange professionals, business leaders and foundations-to discuss these goals and commit ourselves to do our part to achieve them...
...blunder probably doesn't make the top five. Two weeks ago, officials from the Boston FBI field office were hauled before the House Committee on Government Reform to explain why they had allowed Joseph Salvati to spend 30 years in prison for a murder they knew he didn't commit, just to protect one of their informants. "The Federal Government determined that Joe Salvati's life was expendable," said his lawyer Victor Garo. Asked if he felt any remorse for what they had done to Salvati and his family, retired Boston agent H. Paul Rico said: "What do you want...
...officials blamed an antiquated computer-database system: "Our technology is so old and unreliable, we don't know what we know," said one. Yet a former senior Justice official called it "beyond amazing" that the FBI would commit such a blunder in its most high-profile case in years--especially after similar charges of mishandling evidence were leveled during the investigation of Clinton's campaign-finance scandals and led to a sweeping internal probe. "It's a problem the bureau has had for a long time," the official noted. "Agents are great at acquiring information; they're not great...
...weeks before the trial's opening statements, the Justice Department released a report slamming the FBI forensics lab for sloppiness in gathering evidence, specifically citing the Oklahoma City case. Bureau whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst claimed that agents were routinely pressured to commit perjury in order to win convictions. But U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch allowed only six pages of the 517-page Justice report to be presented at trial. During McVeigh's subsequent appeals, his attorneys repeatedly claimed the government was withholding information helpful to McVeigh--allegations that, of course, the government denied...