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DIED. WILLIAM ROTH JR., 82, former Republican Senator of Delaware from 1971 to 2001 best known as the architect of a popular tax-sheltered retirement account; of heart failure; in Washington. A budget watchdog who once discovered that the Defense Department was paying $9,600 for a wrench and $640 for a toilet seat, he co-sponsored the 1981 Kemp-Roth tax cuts that became a centerpiece of Reaganomics. His Roth IRA first became available in 1998, allowing people to make tax-free withdrawals for retirement, education or first-time home purchases...
...fighting the war on terrorism, but funds have also been spent on new benefits for veterans, subsidies for farmers and aid to low-performing schools and needy students. Pork-barrel spending is also on the rise. In the past two years, it has gone up 48%, according to one watchdog group, including millions of dollars in the farm bill that went to those infamous mohair subsidies, and politicians of both parties are quietly delighted that the public no longer seems to care. But economists are concerned that with each new trip to the trough, lawmakers are accelerating the arrival...
Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) has lobbied the University for five years to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a coalition of universities, students and labor experts that acts as a watchdog over factories manufacturing school apparel. Over 100 schools are already members...
...wall of an empty factory building in Marienwerder Brandenburg. On Nov. 14, a box of six Molotov cocktails was found outside a synagogue in Ivry-sur-Seine, just south of Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those f___ing Muslim rats out of the country." And on the same day, Agrese 95, a Czech "white power" band, played before some 150 people in central Bohemia, singing lyrics like: "Enough tolerance ... Your future is ovens and gas chambers." Most...
...total of 10, and added to the 100 coalition troops already killed in November, the worst month for casualties since the U.S.-led invasion began in March. Final Warning IRAN The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), censured Tehran for its clandestine nuclear program. The agency's board stopped short of U.S. demands that it refer the country to the U.N. Security Council. But the IAEA did warn of stern action in the event of "further serious Iranian failures." Tehran claims its program is for civil use. Come Get Him NIGERIA President Olusegun Obasanjo...