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Foley is thinking along similar lines. Several proposals for limiting honorariums (as lucrative speaking fees paid by special-interest groups are euphemistically labeled) are being considered by a bipartisan House panel. The plan considered most likely to succeed would gradually phase out speaking fees as House and Senate salaries increased from their present level of $89,500. Thus a 7% pay raise would be accompanied by a 7% lowering in the earnings allowed from speeches, which at present are 30% of salary for a House member and 40% for a Senator...
Heaney will be paid 3120 pounds during each of his five years as Oxford poet. Because the position is largely honorary, it will not interfere with his Harvard appointment...
Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney has been elected Oxford University's professor of poetry, one of the highest honors that can be paid to an English language poet or poetry critic...
When it comes to spying on its own people, China has revealed a surprising -- and daunting -- competence. Few in Beijing paid much attention to the cameras mounted on lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos...
...assets of the 500 insolvent thrifts. Since the bonds will be sold by the RTC rather than the Treasury, Bush hoped they would be classified "off budget," meaning they would not be counted as part of the federal deficit. But by carrying that designation, they would have paid a higher interest rate than Government bonds. That extra interest expense would increase the overall cost of the bailout plan by an estimated $5 billion. The House refused to go along with that sleight of hand and voted to include the $50 billion in the federal budget. But the House exempted...