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...addition to the well-known reforms in monetary policy, another Cardoso legacy was the restructuring of the Federal Revenue, which helped to ameliorate Brazil’s problem with tax collection. The FR beat collection records in all but the first of the Cardoso years. Just as Cardoso transformed the Federal Revenue, Lula is transforming the Federal Police. Today, the RF is a milestone in efficiency, even if it is still no IRS. The PF may be as successful, even if it falls short of FBI standards...
...efforts, the administration of Harvard remained firmly opposed to Groszyk coming back on the court. The potential risk to his health and the liability that the school would face allowing him on the court was too much. After months of frustration, Groszyk found a legal loophole around the problem late last spring. If Groszyk were to sign a form waiving all Harvard University of all liabilities if he were to result in injury, Groszyk would be allowed to play again. Contacting and arranging to train with a family friend and trainer at the University of Texas in Austin, Groszyk began...
...long as the investigation of the mercenary problem isn’t allowed to proceed upward, beyond the bad split-second decisions or the personal failings to which it has been limited thus far, we have learned little. The inward complicity of the military-industrial complex in creating a situation in which hired guns, American and otherwise, were allowed to operate free of repercussions in a war zone bespeaks the destructive logic and the hubris that have prevailed since the invasion...
...traced back to the very sort of careless and baseless military intervention that it ended up endorsing. The war in Iraq may not be the imperialistic oil-grab some on the left have evoked, but the indignation and dissembling with which its leaders have responded to the mercenary problem certainly does little to combat that perception—at home or in the nurseries of anti-American agitators...
...Friday, yet another potential problem surfaced for Rangel, when Politico.com reported that he had paid his son $80,000 in campaign funds "for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create." Says congressional scholar Tom Mann: "It's very sad, but it's sort of one thing after another ... It's still too early to tell what the resolution will be, but it certainly isn't helpful that new items keep emerging...