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...Africa, who has been recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after watching his own father being slaughtered. The author visited Nigeria, where his mother is currently the finance minister, frequently when he was growing up, and lived there last year, working with refugees. We chatted with Iweala by phone...
...been helped by the fact that Abramoff did almost all his most important communicating by e-mail--even with the assistants who sat outside his office, associates say. Also, authorities have collected the daily "wrap-ups" that Abramoff required his assistants to provide, including notations of nearly every phone call and appointment, every favor asked and every payment delivered. Scanlon's testimony, however, could be crucial to making any quid pro quo link that may exist between what he and Abramoff gave lawmakers and what the two got from them...
...time the Dubbo meeting is over, Estens has generated a flurry of phone calls, report-backs and a soiree with a senior bureaucrat. It's been fruitful and a jolly party compared with some meetings Estens has had with public servants. "Like Colin Powell in the first Gulf War, I've threatened to use overwhelming force on some departments," says Estens. "Bureaucrats have trouble understanding my psychological game plan." To Estens' mind, the AES is "best practice indigenous employment policy" that politicians support - but which baldly reveals the failings of bureaucrats. He's scathing about the good-hearted, impotent officials...
...young people, Don't you want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have the flash car and the blonde on your arm. But you've got to work for it." One of Moore's slogans, reproduced on a mobile-phone holder is leave the mob, get a job. Making the initial step into work for a young person from a troubled family is difficult, she says, especially with the peer pressure that comes from being different and taunts of "shame." "Become a role model, I say to them. The only 'shame' about...
...background, and the incident has sparked concern among Muslim students and other student organizations on campus. Huma Farid ’06 said that as she was walking on Quincy Street past Lamont Library at around 6 p.m. last Monday, she was speaking with her father on her cell phone when she heard screaming from a group of women across the street. “As I got towards them, it got louder and louder, and I could hear the words—they were screaming ‘filthy Jew-hater,’” she said...