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Brown claimed during the 1988 controversy that Bulger accepted money through a former legal associate, Thomas Finnerty, in return for influence on the project. Bulger paid the money back within a year, and a federal investigation found no wrong-doing on his part...
Seventy-five percent of the congregation lives within four blocks of the proposed building, St. Louis said. His congregation also bought a van to pick up members who would need to commute, he said...
Public policy studies and programs (the old Littauer Center, the new Kennedy Center, etc.) were political in inspiration--the push coming from government, private industry and interest groups galore. Business schools and many subfields within economics were political (and intellectual, too) in inspiration--the push coming from government, industry and interest groups. Regional studies (Russian, East Asian, Middle East, African, Latin American) were political (and intellectual, too) in inspiration. And so on and so forth...I think the political argument as used by NAS backers is phony...
...nuclear club was a valid reason for offensive military action. Protecting U.S. oil supplies, by contrast, was judged a sufficient cause for resorting to force by only 31%. The President and other key government members have repeatedly argued that Iraq's 15-year effort to develop nukes could succeed within the next few months. "Those who would measure the timetable for Saddam's atomic program in years may be seriously underestimating the reality of that situation," Bush declared during his Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops in Saudi Arabia...
Should the Iraqis elect to tamper with the uranium in the future, U.S. experts estimate, the process of turning it into a bomb would take a minimum of several months. Since an IAEA inspection might occur within that period, a diversion could be detected before an Iraqi nuclear bomb became a fait accompli. Even if Saddam's scientists succeeded in using the salvaged core to make a bomb, most U.S. experts believe it would be so bulky that it could not be launched by any missile or bomber Iraq possesses, and would thus have to be delivered to its detonation...