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...dollars the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasted by awarding Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork...
...mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from the advocacy of civil libertarians who had worked to give mental health patients a say in their treatment...
...village. A directive on the wall reminded him his job was to "investigate all cases of a political nature, suppress all civil commotion and gather political intelligence." There was even a detailed procedure in case the station ever came under attack. Fear and vigilance combined in an obsession with paperwork. Every remark I made was typed in triplicate. I was fingerprinted five times...
...office building, she was impressed by his passion for the obscure sport and encouraged him to apply for a $4,500 leadership scholarship, which he is using to create a nonprofit to spread the word about parkour. As he quietly trains on campus, Cecka is preparing the paperwork for an urban-reclamation club to spruce up the school and build goodwill to one day get university officials to sanction parkour. "Hopefully, they'll listen to me then and won't immediately turn me down due to liability concerns," he says...
...school district is investigating whether the inaccurate records reflect a pattern of deception or sloppy paperwork. "We have uncovered some legitimate questions as to how some information has been handled," says Nora Carr, chief communications officer for the district...