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...aircraft to land in Iran was part of the botched 1980 hostage rescue. Both the U.S. and Iranian governments described the current mission as strictly humanitarian, and, indeed, last Friday the Iranians rebuffed a U.S. offer to send a second, higher-powered delegation that would have included Senator Elizabeth Dole and an unnamed Bush family member. But the goodwill on the ground was unmistakable. Mohammad Reza Tammasi, the manager of Bam's huge foreign-aid campsite, told the Americans, "We hope your arrival here will help improve relations between our countries...
Strauss founded the Steps with two colleagues in 1981 (“when Bob Dole was only 71 years old”), while working for former Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill. After eight years of being a Washington insider, including chief counsel for a Senate sub-committee on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, he couldn’t hold it in anymore. Politics was just too funny...
...management team led by current CEO Doug Parker, 41, was in the process of transforming the airline when 9/11 hit. Parker was first to ask for--and receive--a government loan guarantee from the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB), which had $10 billion to dole out in such guarantees. Barely three months after the attacks, America West was handed a $379.6 million loan-guarantee package. In return, the government demanded severe limits on labor costs and took 19 million stock warrants giving it the right to buy shares...
...known to dampen their desire to get a job and actually be productive. A tax on death is just wrong, Bush insists—it is almost as offensive as a tax on coffee. And so, countless scions of the upper class were put back on the inheritance dole...
...technical and intellectual considerations to be investigated by the Council serve only to obscure the depravity of its work and of the Governor who ordered it. Even if it were possible to create an incontrovertible system—it is beyond the state’s place to dole out death. It has been known in every place and at every time that it is wrong to kill, and no government should exempt itself from such a fundamental moral tenet. For Massachusetts to do so now would represent a 19-year regression in the state’s human ethics...