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Since he emerged as a leading character in the controversy over House majority leader Tom DeLay's ethical standards, Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been famously tight-lipped. A central issue is whether some of DeLay's overseas travel was funded, at least indirectly, by Abramoff, in violation of House rules barring legislators from accepting travel paid for by lobbyists. Abramoff, 46, an orthodox Jew who espouses conservative values, was already under investigation by two congressional committees and the FBI for allegedly bilking his Indian-tribe clients and possibly abusing tax exemptions on charities he set up. Abramoff spoke...
...subsidized every major transportation advance in our nation's history," Saxton told me, "and this is one with national-security implications, given our dependence on oil from the Middle East." Political implications too: an ambitious energy-independence campaign would divert attention from the current congressional tawdriness, the Tom DeLay scandal, the Terri Schiavo intervention, the Social Security stalemate. It is boldness of a sort that George W. Bush usually loves--a patriotic way to simultaneously address high gasoline prices, the war on terrorism and the embarrassment of holding hands in public with the wrong people...
Murphy said 2,000 to 3,000 additional patients could have been on treatment had it not been for the funding delay...
Lack of models, however, was never a reason for the delay, according to the magazine’s founders. Baldegg and founder and president Camilla A. Hdry ’04-’05 rely on their friends for an abundance of sultry sources. “People love to model,” Hdry says. Case in point: Kevin C.L. Ching ’06, who appears on the cover, says he just wanted to do something fun with his blockmates...
...cones alongside six-year old children holding hot dogs. There was no alcohol. There were no professional bands. In place of all that? Carnival rides—“Bouncy Boxing” was a favorite—and little kids. The next day, after three hours of delay and vamping by the Harvard Spoken Word Society, Busta Rhymes gave a fashionably late performance to a tired, cranky crowd...