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...WITHDRAWN. A guilty plea to a felony tax charge, by LEA FASTOW, whose spouse will spend 10 years in prison for his role in the Enron megafraud; in Houston. Fastow reneged after a judge said he would not abide by a plea bargain that called for her to spend only five months in jail, a deal designed to ensure that their children would have at least one parent at home. Her trial is scheduled for June...
...WITHDRAWN. LAKSHMI PANDIT, 22, Miss India-World 2004, from the Miss World beauty pageant, after controversy over her marital status; in Bombay. Pandit said she once claimed to be married to a fellow model to rent an apartment. In 1989 Pandit's sister Kalpana withdrew from the Miss World contest when it was discovered that she was an American citizen...
Rising tuitions across the country have drawn national attention. Rep. Howard P. McKeon, R-Calif., proposed legislation to penalize schools for large tuition increases. The proposal was withdrawn two weeks...
...when the inspectors were withdrawn, the U.S. found itself without anybody inside Iraq, and there was a rush to find agents among defectors,” he said...
...while building a $3 million factory in Beijing. That might make it awkward for him to champion keeping jobs at home. Two hours before the Commerce Department was scheduled to announce Raimondo's nomination last week, the Kerry campaign did it for them. A day later, Raimondo had withdrawn his name from consideration, and Team Kerry was chortling about how difficult it had been for the White House to create even one new job. Sighed an Administration official: "It's clear these guys are pros and they know what they are doing...