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Melvoin—who is also a Crimson magazine writer and a member of the College Events Board—said that he hopes to gain the necessary background in economics and development at Cambridge to eventually work in China. He said he plans to participate in crew and live in Jesus College at Cambridge...
...health care reform is dead, it is the fault not of overreaching but of not reaching far enough. To gain the votes of conservative Democrats, the President was too willing to compromise on important components...
...count on U.S. support to head off sanctions and other international pressure in the name of anticommunist solidarity. Financial sanctions were beginning to bite and the price of maintaining the status quo was beginning to appear prohibitive. De Klerk, to his credit, realized that his people had more to gain from negotiating from a position of relative strength. And the political unrest in the black townships, combined with the expanding sanctions and growing isolation, helped him make the case to his own electorate...
...huge volumes of suspect cash being moved from Africa to the U.S. for no other reason than to fatten the bank accounts of crooked leaders, shady arms dealers and conniving middlemen. And experts warn that if these people can still shuttle suspected corruption money across borders for personal gain, similar methods remain open to terrorists, too. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...That's because the law itself created the means for the PEPs in the Senate investigation to gain that access. The Patriot Act made it illegal for individuals or businesses in the U.S. to accept money generated by corruption abroad, deeming it as being complicit to money laundering. But in doing so, the law exempted hedge funds, realtors and escrow agents, and made it possible for foreign officials to use American lobbyists, lawyers and university officials to get around the money laundering...