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Keaney said the SRO was asked to examine the feasibility of online billing last September. She said the SRO identified several advantages of making the switch...
...compass. It was not young John who was "blindfolded" that day in the boat, but Richard; he sat covered by a tarp reading his maps and instruments by flashlight and calling out a course for John, at the helm, to follow. Every now and then he offered to switch places, and John guided the vessel by what sailors call dead reckoning...
...have modernized and reformed their budgets. "The process is key," says Blöndal, an Icelander who regularly confers with treasury officials from around the world in his role as a budget expert at the O.E.C.D. in Paris. What does modernizing a budget mean? Consider Sweden, which made the switch a decade ago during a deep economic crisis. The government slashed spending and adopted a "top-down" budget process. Previously, ministries...
...front of the camera, most say things that give me hope for the relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East—things like, “I don’t associate the American people with what the American government does.” Once I switch off the camera their rhetoric changes. Kids ask me if I love Israel, old women call me ibn al-kilab (son of a dog) and men from Hezbollah tell my friend that all Americans should have their necks broken. Hope in the eye of the camera surrenders to a looming shadow...
...switch from being a police officer to being a true-crime writer? I started by writing for True Confessions magazine, then became the stringer for True Detective and Master Detective. That entailed going down to the police department, the sheriff's office, to get the story. I went back to school to get a degree in police science. Over the next 14 years, I probably covered more than 1,000 cases, mostly murders, some bank robbers, some serial rapists...