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White House The Bush Administration opposes the Senate's bill, saying it contains extraneous provisions and should not give handouts to lenders. Instead, the Administration wants to provide tax breaks to Americans who "play by the rules," modernize the FHA and improve oversight of lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie...
...Scott Bloch, the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel - charged with protecting federal whistle-blowers - says he is investigating several new cases involving possibly flawed compliance with airworthiness directives that could lead to more groundings. "There are additional revelations about oversight issues with regard to airline safety that are coming forward," Bloch told TIME on Tuesday. He says his office is probing four or five cases involving two, and possibly three, airlines, but declined to offer any additional details. "Until these new cases develop, I can't speak to whether there would be likely groundings," he says...
...years ago, Cambridge has provided CHA with funding, said Cambridge City Councillor Henrietta J. Davis. Currently, the City allots six million dollars to CHA annually. But Decker said that CHA has not provided adequate information about how it spends this money. Decker said that the lack of formal oversight of CHA allowed the Alliance to eliminate necessary ob-gyn services from its North Cambridge, Riverside, and Windsor Street clinics earlier this year. “It’s time for the Council to really wake up and stand up for women, especially low income women who have been losing...
...some liberties must be forsaken for increased homeland security. Perhaps allowing the government to monitor your phone calls is prudent if it prevents future terrorist attacks.However, American citizens should be aware of the record of its government’s record abroad when there is no constitutional or judicial oversight over their actions. A government that disregards human values abroad, engages in torture, and arbitrarily detains people without a fair trial would have serious credibility question marks. How could citizens trust such a regime for their protection?The Bush administration is such a regime. As Guantánamo Bay enters...
...vulnerable. The spill occurred, according to Dean Smith, in an area that is not used by students, faculty, or staff. An uninhabited area. But how could there be? Is there such a place—completely untouched and uncontrolled by Man? How could we have made such an egregious oversight! What evil was afoot that the Science Center would purge us from its insides? What demon art thou, Science Center? Are you friend or foe? How long have we closed our eyes to the rising power of this edifice’s own agency? As Nostradamus predicted, Harvard University?...