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...defense attorney who worries less about guilt and innocence than about exploiting technicalities and getting paid. Mickey Haller makes his living threading the loopholes of a tattered justice system, setting marijuana growers and fraud artists free—as long as the perpetrators can cough up the thousand-dollar fees...
Strauss said he agreed with Swensen’s view that Harvard’s in-house structure is a problem, and suggested that Harvard would have no trouble finding qualified people, especially alumni, who would manage the endowment for a fraction of the multi-million dollar salaries HMC managers have earned...
...really was a joke,” says Martinez. According to Martinez, when the Secret Service agent came to his dorm room on March 1, 2005, it was nearly four months after he had posted the following: “We should all donate a dollar and we could raise millions of dollars to hire an assassin to kill the President and replace him with a monkey.” Martinez further alleges that the agent asked him about his medical records, his family background, and his propensity to assassinate the leader of the free world.“Honestly...
...target of shedding 86,000 sq. feet of obsolete facilities. However, Coburn pounced again when Moy could not say how much inventory was added during that time, rendering the analysis next to meaningless. The Senator further noted figures compiled from the Government Accounting Office indicating that the dollar amount spent by the Defense Department annually to maintain buildings it did not need came to "between $2000 and $3000 per active duty soldier...
...buildings, courthouses, laboratories and warehouses, out of a total of nearly 9,000 properties. The VA reported that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, who joined Coburn at the hearing, stressed that every penny counts. "Regardless of what sides of the aisle we sit on, we all agree we are in dire financial straits and we need to manage...