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Reverberations from the $60 billion collapse of energy giant Enron are spreading to the White House. Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Bush's biggest donor, has many ties to Bush officials. Economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey and trade negotiator Robert Zoellick were once on the Enron payroll, and others, like political adviser Karl Rove, held sizable chunks of Enron stock. Now questions are being raised about the role Lay may have had in the energy task force overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney, which deliberated in secret and made policy proposals seen as friendly to industry. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat...
Another chunk of Hamas' money comes from Muslim charities in the West, including the U.S. and Britain. The Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in America, has been a notable donor, according to U.S. officials who seized the organization's assets last week (see box). Hamas' popular appeal, especially strong among women, owes much to the payouts and services it brings to suffering Palestinians. The charitable side of Hamas is its greatest strength and its best cover. About 60% of the budget goes to dawah, the legitimate network of schools, mosques, orphanages, clinics, youth clubs, athletic teams and libraries...
Meanwhile, if you want to ensure that your organs are donated when you die, you should say so in a living will or fill out a Uniform Donor Card (available from the American Medical Association). Make sure your closest relatives know about it. And if you don't want to donate an organ, you should make your wishes equally explicit...
Volunteers from both HCS and AAB gathered in the Loker Commons Green Room with representatives from the New England Marrow Donor Program (NEMDP), one of NMDP’s 93 donor centers, where they answered questions from students and encouraged visitors to register as potential donors...
...discussed Mullah Omar's fate with Washington, insisting "this is an Afghan question." Still, Karzai?s political survival will also depend on his ability to deliver on promises to rebuild Afghanistan, and he can?t afford to fall out with the U.S. and the donor community...