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Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust, whom Summers asked last month to draft a University-wide initiative to encourage the advancement of women at Harvard, called the Goldin-Katz study “something entirely...
...that question quite like McNabb, 28, a five-time Pro Bowler who has guided the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years. In 1999, upset that the Eagles chose him over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated...
...Bush is bashing Bremer's agency for failing to establish "adequate financial controls," leaving some fiscal reporting systems "either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA left large portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, kickbacks, and misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The report was written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. His audit cites Bremer for lax accounting (on one payroll, for instance, only 602 of the 8,206 names could be confirmed, with no paper trail...
Bremer, in an angry eight-page reply appended to the draft, rapped Bowen for "misconceptions and inaccuracies" and for expecting the CPA, amid postwar chaos, to follow accounting standards that "even peaceful Western nations would have trouble meeting within a year." Among the details Bremer may have trouble explaining: at a press conference last spring, he said the CPA had approved "fundamental" internal controls for the Health Ministry before handing it over to the interim government. But, the report notes, his staff members said they were "unaware of the basis" for that assertion. --By Timothy J. Burger
...Vries said, "a risk we must take seriously." Apprehending terror suspects is one thing; convicting them is another. That difficulty was highlighted last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo noted that the 1999 draft U.N. convention on terrorism stipulates that paramilitary activity in war zones does not violate international law as long as it does not target civilians. Because there was no evidence that the men recruited by the two Moroccan and three Tunisian defendants planned to attack civilians, Forleo ruled that their actions hadn...