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...Rodriguez and her school also encountered hair-raising setbacks. Though the Taliban had fled, fundamentalists threatened to destroy what they viewed as a school for scandal. Some of her students were beaten by their husbands. Water and electricity were elusive. Money dwindled. The Afghan government finally evicted the school, socked it with punitive taxes and seized its equipment. Meanwhile, bombs exploded on the street outside and neighbors were kidnapped. The book ends with the school shuttered, the students dispersed and Rodriguez unsure of ever reopening...
...product of a law school where more than half her graduating class flunked the bar exam on the first attempt. A March 2006 memo signed by Gonzales delegated authority to the two of them over the hiring and firing of 135 non-civil service Justice Department staffers. Amid the scandal, both have resigned...
...attorney scandal unfolds, it may point to some things that are much more long-lasting: a political transformation of the department from the bottom rungs up, including nonpolitical career jobs. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the civil rights division, which has historically been the most fiercely apolitical division in the department and where voting-rights cases, among other things, are handled. In 2003, the Administration changed the rules to abolish the hiring committees made up of veteran career lawyers and gave that job instead to political appointees. Last year the Boston Globe, analyzing hiring data...
...close enough in the pre-election polls to give the liberal lion a scare. (The final outcome was Kennedy's closest race since his first election, in 1962.) Then Romney's biggest turnaround opportunity presented itself. In 1999 he was recruited to take over the scandal-ridden Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and dig it out of a nearly $400 million operating deficit by 2002. The zest with which he did it, rallying 23,000 volunteers behind him, made him a celebrity, with an added aura of grace for having pulled it off in the aftermath of 9/11...
Programs such as the Federal Perkins Loan, Stafford Loan, Federal Family Education Loan, and Ford Direct Student Loan allow the federal government to “fund” education without providing any real money. As the recent student loan scandal has proven, private lenders have taken advantage of this situation to do what business does—namely, make money...