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...letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld demanding information on Halliburton's $16 billion contract to provide services to troops there. Waxman's staff has been poring over the fine print of that deal for more than two years, and is convinced that much of the money is slipping between layer upon layer of subcontractors...
...Botswana does not have a diversified economy (65% of export income comes from diamonds), its calm political climate proves that these stones are not always corrosive to the places they come from. Namibia is taking steps toward creating a homegrown polishing industry, adding a long-overdue value-added layer to the extraction process. A sudden collapse of the diamond trade would spell disaster for these countries and cause starvation and chaos in other diamond zones in Africa...
...man’s man but still maintains that air of sophistication that has defined this character. He does not take cues from any other actor who has played Bond before, mostly because he doesn’t need to. His credits—including “Layer Cake,” “Enduring Love” and “Road to Perdition”—are evidence enough that he’s an immensely talented actor and, like Christian Bale did for “Batman,” his performance makes...
...assembled students that he would be back in Eliot House during the week of final exams, pulling fire alarms in retaliation. How could anyone think of doing such a thing when people are dying in Iraq, asked the fireman. Really, how could they? The students, with yet another layer of shame heaped upon them, finally began to file back into the House. (Cambridge Fire Department Chief of Operations John J. Gelina, told The Crimson that he had not heard of the tirade and that he was unable to comment further.) While we certainly share the legitimate concern over what would...
...reserved for poor people from lower castes. The Supreme Court judges said that parliament should allow the Court to examine the issue as well, and demanded that the government provide statistical backing for its argument in support of affirmative action. Wealthy elites from lower castes - the co-called "creamy layer" who have benefited from past affirmative action - should not benefit further, the Court said...