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...Benigno Fitial, the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, told TIME he attended the 2001 meeting as well. Then an Abramoff client, the governor recalled asking the President a question about tax policy as part of a discussion among the small group after Bush had given a short speech on the subject. Fitial was seeking low-tax and relaxed labor regulations for the Northern Marianas at the time. Fitial said he used a photograph of himself with President Bush taken at the meeting in his campaign for governor...
...used for faculty to catch 18 year olds with Coronas in their hands,” says Hughes.Other colleges around the country, however, are not turning a blind eye to the power of Facebook to crack down on underage drinking and other illegal activity.Four students at Northern Kentucky University were “fined, put on one year probation, and were forced to attend a class about the dangers of binge drinking” after they were found to have broken rules against drinking in their dorm rooms, according to The Northerner student newspaper. The students at Northern Kentucky join...
WHAT WERE THE AMBITIONS OF AN ABORIGINAL BOY GROWING UP IN NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES WITH 10 SIBLINGS? We were a poor family, but I always felt that the world was my oyster. I remember listening to the radio when Lionel Rose won the world (bantamweight) boxing title in 1968 and thinking, An Aboriginal person can do anything if he has a go. I didn't see myself as prime minister or a billionaire, but I knew I could do things...
...also good business thinking, says Venezuela?s Ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez, one of the program?s architects. When 13 U.S. Senators sent a letter to major U.S. oil companies last fall seeking heating fuel aid for lower-income residents in northern states, Citgo - a subsidiary of the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) - was the only one to step forward. "The U.S. is our biggest [oil export] customer," says Alvarez. "PDVSA is simply responding to that client the way any company should...
...admitted that there was "one incident?which, in retrospect, might have been avoided or at least better handled." Despite a civil rights record he was proud of, he did not have any comment on the case. Like John Kennedy, Nixon was desperately trying to figure out how to attract northern black voters without alienating southern white ones. And so he decided the best course was to say nothing...