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With SEC's top enforcement brass in the back of the hearing room, House committee members, including Pennsylvania Representative Paul E. Kanjorski, chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, listened to by far the most damning explanation of how the government missed Madoff's crime for decades...
...Back in 1999, Burma's top brass unveiled a 15-year plan to completely eliminate opium cultivation. For a few years, production, as measured in part by U.N. helicopter forays over Burma, did indeed decline. But the U.N. now reports that poppy land has increased by 33% since the lowest levels recorded in 2006. Last year was the second consecutive year of growth, and the trend shows how unlikely it is that the junta will make good on its goal of completely wiping out poppies by 2014. (The alarming statistics didn't stopped Myanmar T.V., however, from claiming earlier this...
...characters also made quite a statement throughout the show. Bonnets, capes, shawls, top hats, and vests were abundantly on display; all actors were impeccably clad in plain, plaid, and floral patterns.The production’s truly carefree live music was provided by the Mellstock Band and Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble. From oboe beats to clarinet trills, the players are adept at creating a joyful, holiday mood with their modern and old-fashioned musical instruments. One of the main debates over tradition and change in the show emerges from the addition of a new musical instrument to the church?...
...jobs. But the harsh reality is that in the short term, Obama won't be able to dramatically boost U.S. power. He can enlarge the armed forces, as he has pledged to do, but even if he increases the number of troops and repairs the tanks, the top military brass will still be far more reluctant to use them. So will the public, which wants out of Iraq and isn't that gung ho about an indefinite stay in Afghanistan either. As a result, America's ability to threaten new military action--against Iran, for instance, or in Darfur...
...civilian clothing have subsided. "The best thing that [the army] has done," says Ali Riaz, chair of the department of politics and government at Illinois State University, "is reduce its visibility." As the two begums ready for their return to the limelight - a prospect few among the military brass would have stomached months ago - observers are confident that the election's results will be respected and accepted by the nation's soldiers...