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Halliburton employs intermediary companies to provide electronic equipment and other goods in order to fill its orders quickly, and one such arrangement has already run into trouble. KBR used Altanmia Commercial Marketing, a Kuwaiti firm with ties to the country's ruling family, rather than the Kuwaiti national oil company, to fill some of its initial fuel orders. That deal is now the subject of an investigation by the Kuwaiti government and is also being looked into by the Pentagon, which says Altanmia's markup--about $1 per gal.--resulted in a $61 million overcharge. Halliburton says it used Altanmia...
...leather salesman, but Foreign Minister Goff says police have found no evidence for this.) Alternatively, Buchanan says, "you could come on a student visa and overstay, though that's being tightened up worldwide - many of the 9/11 hijackers were in the U.S. as students." In Auckland last week, a Kuwaiti student and an Iraqi were charged with forging passports from six countries, including Australia...
...Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 'you stick with the man who can hold it together.' ... Citizens are unlikely to be moved by the U.S. report made public last week cataloging just how brutally Saddam's forces behaved in the Gulf War. According to Pentagon investigators, Iraq tortured and killed 1,082 Kuwaiti civilians and violently abused all captured prisoners of war. Kuwaiti victims were dismembered by axes and drowned in acid baths; U.S. POWs were beaten and forced to urinate on the American flag. The atrocities were so widespread, said the report, 'that they could not have occurred without the authority...
...couture to sustain its beautiful, frail self when very few can afford these otherworldly clothes? The clients who pay retail--from Kuwaiti brides-to-be to fashion-conscious socialites--don't give the brands much exposure. And these creations are made to be seen. Which is why stars--and, even more crucially, their stylists--are ever more welcome at the Paris shows. A stunning dress on a gorgeous body at a telegenic gala can do wonders for the fortunes of star, event and especially designer...
...hurt by rampant payoffs because they distort competition. "There is significant corruption in the industry," Alan Boeckmann, chief executive of U.S. construction giant Fluor, tells TIME. Some big players, including Bechtel and Halliburton - which last week fired two employees for allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord now in place there is growing pressure to sign up. Will the pledge be enforced? We'll see. "We all know this is just a first step," Boeckmann acknowledges. Best-Laid Plans Amid declining productivity and rising unemployment, the E.U. Commission warned member...