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...fact that The Crimson chose to open its response to Counter with a wise-crack by suggesting that "the four months the Foundation took to respond to The Crimson's four-part series on diversity" may be explained by the possibility that "perhaps the Harvard Foundation is woefully understaffed," is indicative of the lack of seriousness with which The Crimson approaches Counter and his work...
...what a growing number of House Democrats have been saying behind closed doors. To them, Foley could have cleaned up the House bank before it grew into the most damaging congressional scandal in decades. Instead, he has exposed them to ridicule -- and possible defeat this November -- by failing to crack down on former House sergeant at arms Jack Russ, whose sloppy oversight of the now defunct bank permitted members to write overdrafts long after Russ had assured the Speaker that new procedures to prevent such abuses had been installed. Even after Foley was warned by comptroller general Charles Bowsher...
...early 1970s. The Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal reign of terror killed an estimated 1 million Cambodians, did little direct damage to the monuments, but the fighting made maintenance impossible. Says B. Narasimhaiah, the head of an Indian archaeology team at Angkor Wat: "Wherever there is a small crack, dust will accumulate and soon a bush will spring up." All but a few of the major temples are covered in weeds, small bushes and even large trees...
...enlist TV's help in tracking down fugitives through shows like America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. They let reporters from local stations, as well as network news shows like 48 Hours, follow them around on everything from routine patrols to big-time drug busts. And when they crack a major case, they sell their stories to Hollywood producers for the inevitable "fact-based" TV movie...
Kiante Brown, 15, of Oakland, knows this all too well. His mother is a recovering crack addict who, he says, pays little attention to his comings and goings, and he hasn't seen his father in two years. Kiante used to spend his afternoons selling drugs on street corners. What little education he has came in bits and pieces; he has missed so much school he'll have to repeat the eighth grade. "I didn't really drop out, but I haven't been going to school much," he says. "For a while my mom told...