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...earmarks. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, on trial for illegal campaign fund transfers, is also under investigation for dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former staffers. The former Chairman of the House Administration Committee, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, has been fingered by four people in a public corruption scheme tied to Abramoff. Florida Republican Katherine Harris and Virginia Republican Virgil Goode have also been caught up in spreading influence-peddling allegations. And Republicans Conrad Burns, John Doolittle and other Abramoff casualties are biting their nails while the feds investigate them...
...remote communities-market leaders went into crisis mode. In April, Australia's Arts Minister Rod Kemp announced a crackdown on exploitation in the industry, hinting at a parliamentary inquiry in the coming months. The Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board launched a $A3 million scheme to help combat the problem, including a new code of conduct for dealers and their customers. "The time is right to get it right," says the board's chair Chris Sarra. "It's not only Aboriginal artists benefiting from the industry. It's all Australians...
...Depression - how little they knew - the play relates the machinations of political bosses to get its man, John Wintergreen (here, Broadway veteran Victor Garber), into the White House. Bereft of ideas or ideals, they take the advice of a chambermaid and run on a platform of Love. Their scheme is to stage an Atlantic City beauty contest and marry off the winner, a Southern honeypot named Diana Devereaux (wowser Jenny Powers), to the bachelor Wintergreen. The candidate, though, has fallen for his secretary, Mary Turner (Jennifer Laura Thompson, fresh from playing Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked). The John-loves...
...Maull said. “Do we have one? I’m not certain yet.” Allston, she said, is “a big, big question mark.”Still, King played down the significance of various uncertainties in the grand scheme of the billion-dollar FAS budget.“It would seem scary to imagine your checking account being out of balance by ten million dollars,” King said, sitting with his back to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office in the new, $150-million-CGIS...
...stands, students can only make a course pass/fail before Add/Drop Day, only five weeks into the semester. In most cases, this makes students choose between a normal grading scheme and the pass/fail option before they’ve had a chance to be evaluated even once by the professor, TF, or preceptor. The decision, once made, is final...