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...April. Bad Publicity CANADA The Auditor General condemned the government's "blatant misuse of public funds" after it funneled more than $75 million from a public-advertising program to firms close to the ruling Liberals. Prime Minister Paul Martin - Finance Minister during most of the six-year-long scheme - denied he was party to it, and ordered a public inquiry...
Students would probably view with skepticism any changes proposed by an administration which (with varying degrees of subtlety) has to date been credited with a conspiratorial firing, a nefarious pre-registration scheme and exacerbating a mental health crisis. But some changes benefit students, and skepticism shouldn’t obscure the merits of updating Harvard’s archaic academic calendar. The Crimson Staff, for example, said recently that getting bogged down with term papers and take-home projects after winter holidays is “leisurely,” offering students “plenty of time?...
Once the entire arms-for-hostages scheme unraveled, it became clear there would have to be a full, formal Iran-contra investigation. But Kerry was kept off the resulting panel. His high profile and relentless digging had made him a little too radioactive by that time. As a consolation prize, he was given the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, which led to the next wave of investigations into Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's drug trafficking, and money laundering through the Middle Eastern Bank of Credit & Commerce International...
...clear the way for a man Chirac is said to loathe and perhaps fear: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the most popular conservative politician in France. Moreover, if Juppé were to meekly accept his conviction, some believe it would implicate Chirac, because the conviction stems from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were funneled...
...While there are certainly valid reasons to distrust the press—especially its contemporary profit-driven variations—the Bush White House seems to believe that an ideal press should serve as a mouthpiece for its pre-packaged sound bites, and that anything less is a profiteering scheme...