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Barzani has accused Talabani of stealing $14 million from the Kurdish treasury and being a "jash," or donkey, as Kurds label collaborators with Baghdad. Talabani claims Barzani is pocketing cash from customs fees the Kurds levy on the 10,000 bbl. of diesel fuel Iraq secretly ships through Kurd territory to Turkey every...
Nonetheless, Jackson perceives slights and policy failings, which fuel his repeated hints about challenging Clinton. Says a party official who knows Jackson well: "He wouldn't be doing this if the White House just gave him a hearing once in a while." But the White House sees any conspicuous effort to placate Jackson as dangerous to its efforts to win back disaffected white moderates. And his Rainbow Coalition is longer on enthusiasm than resources. Few other black leaders seem eager for a quixotic crusade that would probably end with a conservative Republican in power. Jackson himself would find that distasteful...
...thousands of workers, demanded wage and benefit givebacks from employees, canceled or delayed billions of dollars of orders for new aircraft and reduced service to hundreds of small communities. But travel-agent commissions, which at $7.8 billion were the airline industry's third largest cost (after labor and fuel) last year, remained largely untouched...
Brown poured more fuel on the fire itself last night by making the Ivy League race even more wide open. The Bears knocked off league-leading Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. With the loss, the Big Green and the Crimson sit together at the top of the Ivy League, while Brown lags only one game behind...
Residents worried about the changing nature ofthe Square say abolishing rent control may verywell add fuel to the fire consuming their oldneighborhood...