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...develop "thoughtful" ideas for sharing the revenues derived from their booming oil and gas reserves. "We are already working on new ideas, like a nationwide sustainable energy project," says Gibbins. Other west-based concepts that could get a national airing include the development of a new north-south transportation corridor, upgrading skill training for new immigrants and the elimination of barriers to interprovincial trade...
...which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor of K Street. And none of that even begins to address the question of whether those who dined, traveled and socialized with Abramoff might have violated Congress's own loophole-ridden rules that prohibit, for instance, lobbyists from paying for travel or taking gifts worth more than $50. All of which...
...tours in New York City geared to vacationers from China, says sales will be about $3 million this year. He hopes to draw on his contacts back home for capital to expand. Eastern Travel is looking to break into the more profitable New York City-to- Boston corridor. Wong will need all the help he can get to outlast the wave of consolidation that may soon shake the industry. His competitors are already moving upmarket. Some of the family-owned Chinatown companies have brought in professional managers to expand, and Boston's Chinatown bus lines recently grabbed space at Boston...
...With some time to kill, Bush got happily lost in the Clinton galleries until a tourist approached him near one exhibit and said, "Hey, you look a lot like George Bush." Replied 41: "I am George Bush." Word spread quickly, and as Bush made his way back down a corridor, a group of schoolchildren broke into spontaneous applause. The kids were paying their respects to one President as he was paying his respects to another...
...unimpressed by the notion that that might have more to do with him than with his god. He tells the story of how, on the evening after the tsunami, he came across a girl kneeling by her mother's body, laid out with hundreds of others in the corridor of the town hospital. "The girl suddenly shouted, 'My mother is alive! Come on, mother! Come on, mother!' And there was motion. She was alive." Amid the misery, he says, that day had its miracles...