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Gerber's scheme, a former insider at the department tells TIME, "was to short-circuit the money before it reached the university" and thus have his department directly receive payments. To bypass the university's accounting service, Gerber had one of his secretaries rent an outside post-office box under the name "Tulane Pathology Group." Bonnie Jones Jackson, who was in charge of billing for the department, said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur...
...search process to help students quickly and efficiently organize physics concepts explained in Wikipedia. “Students very often skip recommended reading, and find resources on the Internet to help with understanding material,” he said. “I thought it might be interesting to short-circuit that process by automating it with software.” To do this, Wissner-Gross developed a program that generates reading lists based on the popularity of a page by ranking the number of pages that link to it. David J. Morin, lecturer for Physics 15a, said he believes...
...process," says Basam Ridha, an adviser who has been tasked by al-Maliki to hasten the punishment. Some cases, says Ridha, have taken a year or more just to be heard by the investigative judge, who decides if the case needs to go to trial or not. Other prisoners short-circuit the process and find ways to get out of prison, either by paying their jailers or, in some instances, bribing the judge to dismiss their case...
...Saddam's old Presidential Palace, Khalilzad couldn't seem farther away from the intense hand-wringing of political strategists in Washington over how the deteriorating situation in Iraq is affecting their poll numbers in the U.S. He admits some Iraqi politicians are nervous that the midterm election results could short-circuit the U.S. commitment to Iraq, but he doesn't see a fundamental change in the approach to Iraq, no matter who controls Congress in January. He could envision minor adjustments being made, "but strategically," says Khalilzad, in an unwrinkled blue shirt, "I don't see an alternative that works...
...voice that he would leave his job in two or three weeks, a few months short of three years at the podium. McClellan, considered "family" because he had worked for Bush in the Texas Governor's office, made no effort to hide from colleagues his sadness about going early. But top Republicans were being consulted about his replacement within days after Bolten's promotion was announced, and the loyal Texan got the message. Friends said McClellan wanted to get it over with, to short-circuit the absurdity of having to refuse to speculate about his future to reporters. Bush praised...