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...weapon in the vehicle; the investigation confirmed no weapon was recovered from the vehicle. The initial statement resulted from the numerous soldier witnesses who strongly believed they were being fired upon from the vehicle, and a misunderstanding that the Iraqi Police arriving at the scene collected a weapon. A thorough investigation determined that the driver and passengers were law abiding citizens of Iraq...
...fines and rarely tracked cases or followed up on inspections. Landing gear, oxygen systems and engine controls were checked in less than half the inspections. The engines were inspected only 52% of the time. Yet the FAA insisted it completed thousands of inspections every year. How many were thorough? And what about those that were not completed...
...this despite my admiration for Alex Gibney's very thorough documentary account of the writer's disheveled life and career, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Aside from a first wife who became totally fed up with Thompson, it collects a lot of tolerant - if often head-shaking - comments on the good doctor's rattling passage through the history of recent American life...
...himself had been hit with accusations that he promised a French ambassadorship to a senator from New York in exchange for $200,000 in big business campaign donations.) "The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided ... an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money," Roosevelt said, adding that candidates who took public funds should be required to limit donation amounts and publicly disclose their receipts. If that sounds familiar it's because Roosevelt's proposal is essentially the system we have today - although...
...Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake said that the provost and University deans decided last fall that "with the growth in cross-school initiatives, conducting a thorough, University-wide examination of Harvard's conflict of interest policies was necessary...