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...Laden tape roils the campaign; the Halliburton probe gets uglier; the art world's child prodigies...
...charges of cronyism weren't bad enough, the inside story of the government's decision to award a controversial no-bid contract to Halliburton is taking on overtones of even uglier "isms": racism and sexism. Whistle-blower Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, the most senior civilian contracting official in the Army Corps of Engineers, is battling the Army's attempt to demote her after she objected in writing not just to, but literally on approval documents for the up to $7 billion contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in March 2003 for the repair of Iraq's oil wells...
...It’s a business where, because the bottom line is winning...I think campaigns have gotten, as participation has dropped and the special interest money has risen, uglier and uglier and more difficult, and that’s unfortunate because it’s keeping a lot of good people from politics...
...money, the supposedly independent 527 committees like the left-wing MoveOn Voter Fund and the Kerry-bashing Swift Boat Veterans for Truth entered the message-management game playing by their own set of rules. Together, these 527 groups have raised more than $240 million. Their ads have been edgier, uglier and arguably more effective than anything the candidates or parties have unleashed in years. Some, like the attacks on the candidates' military records, show real people testifying to the candidates' flaws in a kind of mockumentary style that further blurs the truth...
...side of economic growth," says Hisashi Ogawa, a regional environmental-health adviser for the WHO. He notes that rates begin to ease only after countries become rich enough to put in place costly measures to moderate the slaughter. Sadly, this means that Asia's statistics are bound to get uglier. India and China, the most populous countries in the world, have exploding middle classes whose members are reaching for the car keys for the very first time?yet it will be years before those nations are able to fully afford the costs of safer highways. According to a World Bank...