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...communications staffer, Shaha Alia Riza, was transferred to the State Department after Wolfowitz moved to the Bank in 2005, in accordance with Bank conflict of interest rules. But Wolfowitz admitted this week that he had helped secure a salary bump for Riza when she made the move. A private watchdog group has estimated that Riza's salary (which was still paid for by the World Bank) jumped from $132,000 to more than $194,000 when she relocated to Foggy Bottom, where she no longer works. "In hindsight," Wolfowitz said yesterday, "I wish I had trusted my original instincts...
...weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste.' CHINA'S STATE ADMINISTRATION OF RADIO, FILM AND TELEVISION, in its guidelines for a new Chinese adaptation of American Idol. The media watchdog said that contestants' physical appearance must reflect 'mainstream' values, and forbade Simon Cowell-esque barbed critiques of contestants by judges
...Ahmadinejad renewed his warning that Iran would reconsider its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, if the West continued its pressure against his country's nuclear program. The warning was echoed by Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator and head of the Supreme National Security Council, who is regarded by diplomats in Western capitals as a moderate. The two spoke at the country's main nuclear complex Natanz, in central Iran, and Larijani said Iran had begun injecting gas into centrifuges. Perhaps deliberately vague, neither official specified whether Tehran was running...
...centrifuges - as a precursor to its intended installation of the 54,000 it plans to array for nuclear fuel production - the capacity to enrich uranium to weapons grade still appears to be years away. As recently as March 5, Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said his agency's inspectors "have not seen concrete proof of the industrial capacity to produce weapon-usable nuclear material." Weeks earlier, the IAEA had said that Iran remained some time away from even the capacity to generate industrial-grade fuel (which...
...Democratic investigators also want to use the hearing to question the use of non-White House e-mail accounts. A watchdog organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has said they suspect key players at the White House used outside accounts, including accounts at the Republican National Committee, to circumvent record-keeping required by law. Senate...