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Meanwhile, government audit reports show that over the past five years, federal agencies have lavished $245 million in aid on the Choctaw. In 2001 alone--the same year the tribe bought a $4.5 million corporate plane--the Choctaw collected $50.4 million from nearly 70 government programs, including $14.9 million to...
Because tribes pay no state or local taxes, the compacts Davis negotiated provide for tribal contributions to a special impact fund. The money will go to local communities overburdened by booming casinos and help defray the increased costs of local government services. California officials estimate that the tribes will pay...
THE RICH GET RICHER. While federal recognition entitles tribes to a broad range of government benefits, there is no means testing. In 2001, aid to Indians amounted to $9.4 billion, but in many cases more money went to wealthy members of tribes with lucrative casinos than to destitute Indians. From...
SENTENCED. MASUMI HAYASHI, 41, former insurance saleswoman; to death for killing four people and sickening 63 others after serving arsenic-laced curry to her neighbors at a summer festival in western Japan following a heated dispute in 1998; in Wakayama. Dubbed by the tabloids as the "the poison woman of...
Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said the aggregate data collected by the survey will better reveal trends in student opinion than individual criticisms.