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...from others' mistakes. If they can, the new system could put an end to reckless French government spending that has led to a fivefold increase in the national debt to €1.1 trillion over the past 25 years. "It signals a big shakeup," says Jean-Raphael Alventosa, a budget expert at the Cour des Comptes, the national accounting office, which will get more clout. Even France's love affair with hugely expensive - but glorious - infrastructure projects is changing: the Millau viaduct, the world's highest road bridge that opened last year, was entirely financed by the private company that built...
...climate change is thin. Browner said that many people who deny climate change are using Crichton, who has no formal scientific training, as their “main source,” and that he has briefed President Bush and testified before the Senate as an “expert witness” on climate science. “And he’s a graduate of this fine institution,” Browner said, to which Professor of Law Jody Freeman, the event’s moderator and an environmental law scholar, interjected, “It?...
...have enough leisure time to take up sports, the upper classes drafted the amateurism rules to segregate themselves. The original British rules of 1868 had the now-familiar prohibitions against competing for pay or prize money. But just in case some member of the lower classes might become athletically expert while avoiding such rewards, the rules also bluntly excluded any “mechanic, artisan or labourer.” Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, helped import the amateurism rules to the U.S. The American college rules omitted language about social class, but they...
...legal expert said that the fact that the ex-CIA employee allegedly admitted some form of unauthorized disclosure could accelerate the normally lengthy process of determining whether this specific case will be formally investigated or prosecuted. It could also be folded into the existing overall investigation into who may have leaked the story about the CIA's secret detention network. "There is an open investigation into that case," one U.S. official confirmed...
...expert in Soviet-era prison tactics sees a familiar pattern in the assault on Khodorkovsky. Alexei Kondaurov, a retired KGB major-general, a former official of Khodorkovsky's oil company, Yukos, and current member of the Russian legislature, recalls how other convicts, often mentally unstable, were recruited as agents and placed around a target prisoner. They don't need orders to assault a prisoner singled out by the administration for harsh treatment, Kondaurov says. "They just do it to seek lenience and rewards...