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...until that point, Schumacher-Matos had not faced any problems—he attended college at Vanderbilt and even had a U.S. passport. “These things weren’t major issues back then, and nobody paid so much attention, so I just slipped through the system,” he says...
...School of Public Health encouraged donors and grant applicants to factor in the indirect costs of research—including not insubstantial expenses such as heating and electricity—which cut back on expenditures paid for by the school itself...
...after spending only $6 million because of the relatively few Iraqis the U.S. military wanted to question, Harding told a Senate committee last week. But some $2.4 million of that ended up being questioned by government auditors. That included "severance payments" averaging $20,000 each that Harding had paid to each of the 40 interrogators after the government canceled the contract - payments Harding could not legally make because they were not provided for in the scope of the agreement with the government...
...Shenyang and Harbin parks, however, budgets were apparently strained to such an extent that animals simply weren't fed for weeks at a time. The dire financial straits and gross neglect at the Shenyang site came to light only when disgruntled workers - who hadn't been paid for months - contacted the media...
...earlier, aboard Air Force One, National Security Adviser James Jones gave a grittier briefing to reporters, telling them that Obama wanted Karzai to "understand that in his second term, there are certain things that have not been paid attention to, almost since Day One." To win the elections, marred by fraud, Karzai had to make deals with several unsavory warlords, who are once again represented in his Cabinet. Opposition figures say that these warlords are running their government departments like personal cash machines. Rather than dining alone on rice and kebabs with Karzai at the palace, Obama insisted on being...