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...lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked by the House of Lords Appointments Commission amid concerns that they had recently dipped into their pockets for Labour. One of the men, entrepreneur Sir Gulam Noon, claimed he had been encouraged to omit details of a $460,000 loan to the party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane. "The Tories had a deeper war chest and we needed money to fight them mano...
...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser?s wife, Margaret Lyons, is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors? filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple?s home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser?s case, Lyons...
...settle. Compromise was the minor key in a movie's final fanfare. Allyson lost out on a few good roles: Royal Wedding with her idol Astaire (because she was pregnant with her and Powell's child Ricky), Johnny Belinda and All About Eve (because MGM wouldn't loan her out to other studios...
...Average student-loan debt for the 62% of U.S. undergraduates who borrow to pay for college...
...Craig Orfield, a Republican spokesman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, defended the increases to the Times by pointing out that Congress has actually increased student loan funding, from $52 billion in 2004 to $62 billion this year. He argued that the increases in interest rates were necessary to reduce the federal budget deficit...