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...brought to judgment. But the obstacles are formidable. Despite a recent show of cooperation from Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, the two Presidents have largely stonewalled the tribunal. Both have deeply vested interests in preventing investigations and trials that could incriminate their political apparatus or themselves. Western powers sit down and do business with them because both men are needed to make the fragile Dayton agreement work...
...Government. It blames not an overreaching government that tries to insulate citizens from life's buffeting to the point where it creates deeply destructive dependency, but an uncaring government that does not protect its victim-people enough from that buffeting. Buchanan would protect and wield a mighty government apparatus to do so, a government that builds trade walls and immigrant-repelling fences, that imposes punitive taxes on imports, that polices the hiring and firing practices of business with the arrogance of the most zealous affirmative-action enforcer...
...Gingrich's view that the national party wasn't bothering to help its farm team. Gingrich was taking note of the aspirants too--often when no one else would. "When you are a candidate and you are out there struggling along in a difficult district, generally speaking, the party apparatus will not pay much attention to you," Weyrich says. "They only pay attention to the favored candidates who have a good chance...
...apparatus for the disbursement of funds at PBHA is susceptible to fraud because of the absence of oversight. Committee chairs spend their own money on programming and are then reimbursed by submitting receipts to the treasurer. The treasurer, without question, writes a check in the amount of the receipt to the individual who submitted it. This system makes fraud incredibly easy. I know of cases in which individuals submitted receipts for private purchases and were reimbursed without inquiry. This should not be shocking. The embezzlement of thousands of dollars by Charles K. Lee '93 from "An Evening with Champions" reminds...
...hard even with a team of our size, which is 17 people, because there is only one apparatus from each type of lift," said Jessica Gelman, a junior point guard on the women's basketball team. "This is pretty pathetic for a Division I program...