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...Question #32. Other than from relatives, or from close and long-standing personal friends on occasions such as birthdays or seasonal holidays, have you or your spouse ever received a gift exceeding fifty dollars in value? Please identify the donor, the value of the gift, the date received and the circumstances in which the gift was made.Time to dig up the old wedding registry to check whether the Williams and Sonoma bread maker in the back of the cupboard was over $50. Does your second cousin's plus-one count as a "close personal friend...
...Question #55. Have you paid all taxes and Social Security obligations applicable to the employment of [occasional or regular domestic help]? Otherwise known as the Zoe Baird Memorial Gotcha! Question, after Bill Clinton's unsuccessful nominee for Attorney General. Baird's Nannygate - and a similar dustup involving Bernard Kerik, George W. Bush's nominee for Homeland Security Secretary in 2004 - are pretty obviously the inspirations for this clause, as both scandals severely muddled the respective Presidents' transition plans. Nevertheless, the verdict on this question is mixed. "I don't want somebody disqualified who can help solve the economic problem because...
...criticized the extreme nature of the vetting process used by the questionnaire, though the transition team stands by the measure, defending it as a necessary step toward their goal of avoiding the influence-peddling and personnel scandals that have plagued past transitions. While the questionnaire may seem intimidating, the questions it poses aren't necessarily intended to give a good sense of an applicant's ability to successfully perform a government job. It's also unlikely that a few wrong answers would be reason enough for elimination, especially given that the President-elect himself would not have emerged from answering...
...Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke. It was Burke who famously pledged in 2004 to deny communion to the pro-choice Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry. The archbishop has since been promoted to Rome as head of the Holy See's equivalent of a Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in response to a question last week on Obama's pledge to reverse Washington's policy on stem-cell research, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health, made it clear that the church will not shy away from the debate. "What builds up man is good, what destroys...
...this begs the question, then, of what the Dalai Lama hopes to achieve with this week's congress in Dharamsala, which continues until Saturday and which he won't attend until its close. Tibetologists and other analysts say there is a danger that the radical faction among the exiles, many of them younger members of the community who have criticized the Dalai Lama's self-described "third way" of trying to persuade Beijing to change its attitude on Tibet through negotiation, not independence, could rise to prominence. After all, as the Dalai Lama's representative Tenzin Taklha told reporters earlier...