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...sister Betsy Prince DeVos chaired the Michigan Republican Party from 1996 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2005. And Blackwater has hired U.S. national-security vets onto its executive staff. Among them: Cofer Black, the onetime head of counterterrorism at the cia, and Joseph Schmitz, a former Pentagon inspector general whose duties included investigating contractual agreements with firms like Blackwater...
...began his movie career as The Jerk, needing to be taught the difference between shoe polish and poo, has been stepping in it ever since--from a half-woman in All of Me to the inept Inspector Clouseau in last year's The Pink Panther...
...that question is simple: obsession. An obsession that would take priority over his family, his job, and his safety. “I am simply stupid,” Graysmith says, referring to his lack of prudence when dealing with the Zodiac Killer. But Graysmith was not a police inspector or a crime reporter like the other three men focused on the case; he was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who liked going to the library and solving encrypted messages. When the threats became more aggressive, he learned to take, well, minor precautions. “I would...
...undersecretary of defense for policy that the Pentagon used in his official bio before he left in 2005. "The 'Bush lied, people died' argument is not true," he asserts in bold-faced type at the top of his home page. He notes the Feb. 7 release of a Pentagon inspector general's report that has "spawned a lot of inaccurate commentary by politicians and misreporting by journalists...
...nonprofit organizations, given their threadbare accounting systems. But the nation's 19,000 Catholic parishes, which gather about $6 billion a year from congregations, "are still often medieval in the way they secure or don't secure Sunday collections," says Michael Ryan, a Massachusetts Catholic and former U.S. postal inspector who runs another watchdog site, Churchsecurity.info. At St. Vincent, for example, Skehan and Guinan had immediate access to offertory cash--and according to the police report had staff hide purloined stacks of bills in parish-office ceilings. Ryan and other experts emphasize that church ushers should put that money into...