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...hard to raise a family on a poet's salary, of course, so Burns took a job as a tax inspector while still writing - and farming - on the side. He switched from poems to songs, and produced a number of tunes still famous today: "A Man's a Man for A' That," "A Red, Red Rose," and of course the New Year's Eve jingle about old acquaintances. Unfortunately, Burns had a weak heart, and strenuous requirements of a farmer's life took their toll. He died in 1796 - on the very day that his wife gave birth...
...Everyone understands that the Pentagon gives out information that is not harmful to its interests.' DEFENSE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL, in a report that found no wrongdoing in the Pentagon's public relations program, which used retired officers as military analysts for NBC and other media outlets...
...dominated the weekend box office: Biggie and Kevin James. (Thin Clint was the middle of the sandwich.) The title of the James film both spelled out its modest intentions and lacked the inspired oxymoronia of Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (which lacked any other redeeming feature). Most of the big critics skipped the ordeal of reviewing Mall Cop and handed it off to second-stringers, who pounded the film pretty savagely. So of course I had to find it ... almost semi-recommendable. Anyway, an easy...
...reports will be combed over by the Obama Administration and Congress and will be made public online. "I've never seen anything like this," Oberstar marvels. To ensure that the system will be effective, Oberstar has recruited the Government Accountability Office, Congress's watchdog, and the Transportation Department's inspector general to oversee the process and give feedback along the way. "[We] said, 'This is what we'd like. What are your suggestions for improvements? How do you recommend rigorous standards in law and oversight in the process?'" Oberstar says...
...While leading IDA, the think tank assessed the wisdom of a multiyear contract for F-22 fighter jets while Blair was serving on the board of one of the F-22 project's subcontractors. The issue led him to give up his IDA post and the Pentagon inspector general to conclude he had violated conflict-of-interest rules...