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...related to 9/11 assistance. But sources tell TIME the post-9/11 fraud isn't limited to just phony victims. A former worker at one of the disaster-assistance centers in Manhattan says some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the New York City-based charity Safe Horizon have been cheating the system and even swindling some applicants out of money...
...both Safe Horizon and FEMA, local workers were hired quickly in the first few weeks after the attacks, often from job fairs and temp agencies. The former assistance worker says he became "disheartened" by an atmosphere at the centers in which staffers would stuff prepaid phone cards intended for victims into their FEMA aprons and in which computers and other equipment available only to employees turned up missing. This worker, like many among the center staff, was let go when the tide of aid applicants slowed this spring...
...requirements - adjusted substantially to accommodate the Israeli leader's initial recalcitrance - and move on in search of talks aimed at reducing regional tensions that imperil wider U.S. interests. But that may be wishful thinking, not only because of the problems of implementing a truce, but also because the political horizon looks as gloomy as the security...
...hands, instead propped up at its wider end by a pole that extends from the water. Around the faded, sepia-like tones of the photograph rise okra-colored stalks of grass from the marsh; the glow of the sun can be faintly seen from the horizon in the distance. The image maintains a surreal and ethereal levity, and the inaudible music of the pipe calls out to us as might the Islamic call to prayer...
...Powell had hoped to move the process forward by fixing both parties' eyes on the political horizon, pressing for a quick resumption of negotiations over Palestinian statehood. On that front, Sharon suggested a regional peace conference, possibly to be held in the U.S. in June. And although the Israeli leader was forced to retract his insistence that Arafat be excluded from the guest list, the difference between Palestinians and moderate Arabs on the one hand and Sharon on the other over the shape, or even the desirability, of a final settlement gave little cause for confidence that the conference would...