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Opening The Door After months of wrangling, Iran agreed to allow a team of nuclear inspectors to visit its remote Parchin military facility, which the U.S. says is part of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog headed by Mohamed ElBaradei, will this month start gathering environmental samples and interviewing engineering personnel at the highly restricted site in southeastern Iran. U.S. officials have charged that Iran is using Parchin to study ways to weaponize a nuclear device. Tehran says the site is not connected to its nuclear program, which it maintains...
...state power to entrenched oligarchs will make Yushchenko's government little different from its predecessor. The Ukrainian economy is a haven for venality and insider deals: as the U.S. State Department puts it, its economy "remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption and lack of law enforcement." The anticorruption watchdog Transparency International calls it one of the world's most corrupt countries, on par with Sudan and just above Iraq. Still, others are confident that Yushchenko is committed to transforming Ukraine's corrupt economy and institutions into a more robust democracy. Mykola Yakovyna, a key campaign staffer, said: "There...
...reason the $388 billion spending measure that Congress rushed to approve by Thanksgiving is 3,320 pages long is that lawmakers have stuffed it with pork-barrel prizes. The bill has 11,772 pet projects costing a total of $15.8 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government watchdog group. Congressional leaders of both parties have always allowed appropriations bills to be larded with stuff to ensure votes for the final measure. But in the past decade, when Congress has been dominated by the supposedly fiscally conservative G.O.P., the amount of pork in appropriations bills has more than tripled...
After the largely successful living wage campaign came to an end, Mackinnon became a central player at HarvardWatch, a student and alumni watchdog agency that “keeps tabs on Harvard finances and governance,” she says. Her research for the organization delved deeply into the involvement of Harvard Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 in the collapse of Enron Energy...
Brighton’s court also heard two other Harvard-Yale cases yesterday—one charging two underage Yale students with possession of alcohol and another concerning a trespass offense committed by the leader of a police watchdog group...