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...Salam, was captured far from the Afghan border, in the central Punjabi town of Faisalabad. And according to Pakistani intelligence and tribal leaders, a missile fired on Thursday by a U.S. drone at a vehicle in Pakistan's tribal territory killed Muhammad Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajuddin, a pro-Taliban commander who masterminded the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in December that killed seven CIA agents.(See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...since we were 12 years old. I didn’t want to let him on my parish basketball team because I thought he was a ball hog. Today he goes to school at Brandeis University. We still play basketball recreationally, but neither of us is going pro, though Rubin swore he’d be the first Israeli in the NBA when we were...
...failed to prove a relationship between the strength of campaign finance laws and levels of corruption and public trust in government. Some of this is no doubt due to the subtleties of how money infiltrates the political process. Outright corruption, though real, is less common than implicit quid pro quos or even looser expectations of reciprocity. However, if the bills have failed to reduce corruption, which is easier to study and identify, how likely is it that they have significantly clamped down on means of influence that are harder to pin down? Especially given the amount of effort campaigns...
...Particularly with a large-scale event like “Harvard for Haiti,” these costs are quite significant. Fortunately, the costs of the concert were covered by the University in conjunction with the Office for the Arts. In addition, the performers at the benefit concert worked pro bono. Of course, this is to be expected—every dollar that goes to a performer is a dollar that does not go to charity. However, the effort involved in performing at the benefit is substantial; groups with upwards of eighty members gathered on short notice to learn...
...that he was a bright star in the constellation." After serving as legislative director for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, Ryan mounted a successful bid for Wisconsin's First Congressional District seat in 1998, at age 28. Now 40, the avid outdoorsman is ensconced in a district that shares his pro-life, pro-gun-rights views, and has ascended to become the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee. "He's an unabashed policy wonk," says Mark Green, a fellow Wisconsin Republican and friend who was elected to the House the same year as Ryan. "This is a guy who would...