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...crisis with Iran has been years in the making. Over the past decade, Iran has acquired many of the pieces, parts and plants needed to make a nuclear device. Although Iranian officials insist that Iran's ambitions are limited to nuclear energy, the regime has asserted its right to develop nuclear power and enrich uranium that could be used in bombs as an end in itself--a symbol of sovereign pride, not to mention a useful prop for politicking. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has crisscrossed the country in recent months making Iran's right to a nuclear program...
...some of that with UMass but you can’t rebuild Mass General or Children’s or Dana Farber out in Amherst,” he added. Reilly argued that Harvard has sufficient funding without state money. Officials at Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute insist that is not the case. “We do not currently have enough money,” said Reeve. Although the Harvard Stem Cell Institute has raised about $50 million from private philanthropists and foundations, it still lacks sufficient funds given the tight regulations on federal funding for stem...
...first member of Congress to admit wrongdoing in the federal probe. Prosecutors are likely to insist that he spend as much as 27 months in prison, although a judge could impose up to 10 years, though that stiff a sentence is considered unlikely. His plea agreement lacks language that would require him to testify or to cooperate in other federal prosecutions - in contrast to earlier plea agreements of Ney's longtime chief of staff, Neil Volz, as well as Abramoff himself. The absence of such language suggests that Ney was able to provide little information beyond the scope...
...same token, some observers had predicted prosecutors would insist that Ney plead guilty to bribery, which carries a possible 15-year sentence, in part because Abramoff and another defendant admitted bribing a public official who has been identified as Ney. Right up until his guilty plea, Ney had always denied wrongdoing, even after Volz pleaded guilty in May. Volz confessed to conspiring to corrupt the congressman and others. After leaving the congressional payroll Volz went into business with Abramoff...
...Even those who support early admissions grapple with the issue of financial equity. Many schools insist on binding admissions, which means that that those who apply early must commit to attending that school and pay a deposit. That means the student cannot compare that school's financial aid package to those offered by others...