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...school when he stepped down in 2003 before ever serving a day on the job. American University granted its former president, Benjamin Ladner, a severance payment in the range of $1 million in 2005—even though auditors accused Ladner of financial improprieties. The former president of Florida Gulf Coast University, William C. Merwin, garnered an $811,000 package after he resigned in January following an extramarital affair with a female professor.Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on the tax returns.“We don’t discuss compensation other than what we report...
...became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose a presidential election. In the face of wrenching disappointment, he showed enormous discipline-waking up every day knowing he came so close, believing the Supreme Court was dead wrong to shut down the Florida recount but never talking about it publicly because he didn't want Americans to lose faith in their system. That changes a man forever...
...that sounds like a reference to 2000, so be it. But some will be disappointed to learn that Gore's book does not contain his long-suppressed account of that contentious year. He has never opened up publicly about the Florida debacle, and even in private he avoids the topic. Friends say he thinks the Supreme Court basically stole the election, but he won't say it. He has never indulged in postmortems-not even in the immediate aftermath. His psychological survival depended on looking ahead. "It was all about what's next," says his friend Reed Hundt...
...Central Florida, Dartmouth, Standford and UCLA were the four teams selected as at-large bids in the varsity eight. The other 11 teams are Yale, Washington, Virginia, Southern California, Princeton, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Minnesota, California, Brown and host-Tennessee...
...Padilla first caught the government's eye in the 1980s. He was a teenager, a Chicago gang member who pulled an armed robbery and got sent to juvenile detention. Later, he went to adult prison for brandishing a gun in Florida, and he stayed there until 1992, when he turned 22. After his release, Padilla embraced Islam, and in 1998 he moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July...