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...also focus much of their energies on the lesser and easier-to-prove charge of "honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor of K Street. And none of that even begins to address the question of whether those who dined, traveled and socialized with Abramoff might have violated Congress's own loophole-ridden...
...found out that, in arranging a questionable junket to London, DeLay staff members were demanding that Abramoff produce Lion King tickets, rooms at the Four Seasons and other lavish accommodations. And?with e-mails obtained by my colleague Adam Zagorin?we showed that Ralph Reed was helping Abramoff gain access at the White House...
...manufacturer that gets to market first carries China's automotive reputation on its shoulders. If the first Chinese car in the U.S. flops, later entries will struggle to gain a foothold. John Harmer, vice president of marketing at Geely-USA, vows that Geely isn't rushing into production at the expense of solid engineering. "We'll make sure Geely doesn't become a member of the group of manufacturers that came to the U.S. prematurely and failed," he says...
...Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them, picked up on the story, and it spread across interested circles on the ’net like wildfire.What frustrated Zuckerman was that at roughly the same time a far larger protest was underway in Cairo, Egypt: Sudanese refugees were trying to gain humanitarian assistance and the right to resettle. Their protest drew almost no coverage in the world of popular blogs. Nevertheless, this doesn’t necessarily represent a problem inherent with blogs. For one, it seems likely it’s a temporary state of affairs: as blogging becomes easier...
...prescription for what to do about it. Despite the intelligence failures documented in the book, Risen concludes that as a result of the U.S.'s counterterrorist efforts, "al-Qaeda now seems to lack the power to conduct another 9/11." The question facing policymakers is how to balance that apparent gain in security with its attendant costs--to the military in Iraq, to civil liberties at home and to the U.S.'s standing in the world. State of War ends too hastily to tackle such dilemmas. The book sheds welcome light on the conduct of the war on terrorism...