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...charges of cronyism weren't bad enough, the inside story of the government's decision to award a controversial no-bid contract to Halliburton is taking on overtones of even uglier "isms": racism and sexism. Whistle-blower Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse, the most senior civilian contracting official in the Army Corps of Engineers, is battling the Army's attempt to demote her after she objected in writing not just to, but literally on approval documents for the up to $7 billion contract awarded to a Halliburton subsidiary in March 2003 for the repair of Iraq's oil wells...
HALLIBURTON: A Pentagon whistle-blower gets in hot water for flagging a fat contract...
RICHARD SCRUGGS IS CORPORATE America's worst legal nightmare. In the 1980s and early '90s, he made millions litigating asbestos claims and went on to national fame for beating Big Tobacco, representing the whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, subject of the movie The Insider. Scruggs' tobacco suits netted his practice an estimated $1 billion, money that bought him toys, from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs...
...Failures The Senate weighs in; presidential hair; Chinese whistle-blower...
...took part. Turnout was worst in the new E.U. states; 21% of Poles and 17% of Slovaks cast ballots. Voters punished ruling parties and boosted Euro-skeptics across the E.U. Austria Voters said Ja to reform in the European Parliament, giving two seats to a list led by whistle-blower Hans-Peter Martin The far-right Freedom Party lost four of its five seats, sparking an emergency change in leadership Belgium Popular with Flemish voters but vilified by the mainstream parties, the far-right Vlaams Blok won second place PM Guy Verhofstadt's liberals lagged behind the Christian Democratic opposition...