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...diplomatic solution remains the preferred outcome of the key players in the Iran nuclear standoff, but a "diplomatic solution" is easier said than done. The Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency decided in Vienna Wednesday to forward to the UN Security Council a report from the UN nuclear watchdog that could not certify that Iran's nuclear program is strictly, as Tehran claims, for civilian energy purposes. The council could discuss the matter as early as next week and present Iran with an ultimatum to comply with IAEA demands that it suspend uranium enrichment activities. But IAEA chief Mohammed...
...individual countries are eager to see their national players swallowed up by outside predators. "The government's wish is clear: to defend our national interests," said French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin last week. Madrid is no different; late last month, Spain's Council of Ministers boosted its energy watchdog's veto powers over foreign takeovers. The regulator - stuffed full of government allies - might well scupper the German bid. Of course, some European governments dislike the idea of any familiar brand - from yogurt to automobiles - being swallowed up by foreigners, even if it's unusual for them...
...Department of Defense's inspector general, which some analysts charge has been slow to investigate war spending, will open its first office in the Middle East next week. And a new watchdog project called Follow the Money will begin monitoring from the outside. It's sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and led by Dina Rasor, an investigator who helped uncover the Pentagon procurement scandals of the 1980s. "Normal oversight systems have not been in place," Rasor says. "Troops are getting what they don't need but not getting what they do need. One soldier told...
...maintained a constant presence at Harvard since he left the presidency in 1991, serving as faculty chair of the Kennedy School of Government’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and as a University professor. Last month, Bok stepped down as chairman of Common Cause, a government watchdog group, after eight years at its helm. But Bok wrote in an e-mail that he had decided to resign from the organization in early January, and that it “had nothing whatsoever to do with recent events at Harvard.” “All this occurred...
...would later lambast President Bush over the Iraq war; and Senator Diane Feinstein-along with the many more thousands he showered on GOP members. "This ethically challenged behavior should speak volumes about the need for earmark reform," says Naomi Steiner of Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group...