| Kamal Abu Eita & Kamal Khalil
It used to be that if we wanted to get something into a demonstration, we would have the women carry it in. Also different: The type of tear gas used today. I miss the old tear gas, which I love in a way. We used to catch it and throw back at the police. Now, the gas they use suffocates people instantly, so we fall down and are either trampled or arrested. We had someone analyze it its banned internationally and, of course, its made in the USA, he alleges. After a few years as a follower, Abu Eita found himself promoted by a kind of group consensus to leader. But nobody chooses anybody, he quickly adds. If a demonstration is split in half because of police intervention, someone has to take over. As students, we came up with many slogans that people later took up and repeated in the events of January 18 and 19, 1977, he says, referring to the demonstrations over rising prices (demonstrations that were themselves preludes to that years later protests against Sadats pledge to enter peace talks with Israel).
The perfect storm could really blow
Mark Mitchell from London, Canada writes: Why does not anybody realize that U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait virtually ensures the free flow of oil supplies to the West? Moreover, why does nobody realize that the dollar's linkage to those massively protected supplies ensures the United States can continue to sustain its massive debt so long as its military holds the world's oil hostage? "
The US Navy ensures that there is stability in the world. The USA is not dependent on oil from the mid-East (no more than 15% of its daily oil needs come from mid-East). Same cannot be said for Europe, Japan and China. Without the USA protecting the world's oil supply Japan and China certainly would have to take steps to to do so. Yet a militarized Japan is not acceptable to China, similarly Japan could not accept China controlling Japan's access to oil.
A long-kept Md. secret: interest-free college loans
Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. There's no age limit. Recipients range from age 17 to 61. To qualify for a loan, you must apply for federal financial aid. You need to have a grade-point average of at least 2.0 on a scale of 4. And you must have a co-signer for the loan so that if you don't repay it, the co-signer would be on the hook. Central Scholarship will begin accepting applications for the 2008-2009 academic year in January. The deadline is May 31. For more details check out the nonprofit's Web site at www.centralsb.org. .
Performance and Accountability Report - Fiscal Year 2007 (NUREG-1542 ...
The following links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe. NUREG-1542, Vol. 13 (PDF - 6.13 MB - Full Version) Introductory Pages (PDF - 404 KB) Chapter 1 (PDF - 567 KB) Chapter 2 (PDF - 574 KB) Chapter 3 (PDF - 407 KB) Appendices (PDF - 1.04 MB) Publication Information Availability Notice Table of Contents A Message from the Chairman Chapter 1: Management's Discussion and Analysis Introduction About the NRC Program Performance Overview Program Performance Results Future Challenges President's Management Agenda Financial Performance Overview Systems, Controls, and Legal Compliance Chapter 2: Program Performance Measuring and Reporting Performance Goals and Performance Measures Industry Trends Addressing the President's Management Agenda Costing to Goals, Part Reviews, and Program Evaluations Program Assessment Rating Tool Program Evaluations Data Sources and Quality Chapter 3: Financial Statements and Auditors' Report A Message from the Chief Financial Officer Principal Statements Notes to Principal Statements Required Supplementary Information Auditors' Reports Independent Auditors' Report on the Financial Statements Management's Response to the Independent Auditors' Report on the Financial Statements Appendices A Inspector General's Assessment of the Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges Facing the NRC B NRC Actions Responding to the Office of the Inspector General's Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges C Management Decisions and Final Actions on OIG Audit Recommendations D Summary of Financial Statement Audit and Management Assurances E Verification and Validation of NRC's Measures and Metrics F Agreement States G NRC Organization Chart H Glossary of Acronyms A Message from the Chairman I am pleased to present the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Performance and Accountability Report for FY 2007.
Humiliation for Edwards
Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war ... MyDD is temporarily stunned! ... 2:33 P.M. ______________________________ Thursday, January 17, 2007 'Bradley Effect' Update: Obama is ahead by 9 points over Hillary in the most recent Mason-Dixon poll of South Carolina voters. But can we trust voters to have told pollsters the truth--or are racial concerns (including the desire not to offend) leading them to give inaccurate answers? a) Black 'Bradley' Voters? Noam Scheiber weighs in again on the possiblity of such a "Bradley Effect" for black voters. It all depends on the race of the interviewer, he argues--suggesting that when the interviewer is black, some black voters may opt to (falsely) show racial solidarity, but that when African-Americans are in the presence of whites, the greater social fear is being considered a "race man" ...
Future wide open for Skyline senior
His Skyline teammates tried to recruit him to Minnesota early on, but he asked them to stop. "It's my decision," said Cooper, a 2007 SportsDay first-team All-Area selection. "Where I am most comfortable is where I'm going." Cooper, No. 13 on SportsDay's Area Top 100, said he will visit Oklahoma or Wisconsin next weekend and possibly Kansas the weekend of Feb. 1. He visited Kansas State in the fall. Cooper said if he's blown away by Texas Tech, he could commit this weekend. "It's the school that's been coming after me for awhile," Cooper said. He plans to let things play out, but his cousin, Victor Hunter of Irving Nimitz, is a backup middle linebacker at Tech. And his family wants him to stay close to home.
School, Lindsay Roberts deny all
Oral Roberts University and its president's wife, Lindsay Roberts, issued written statements Saturday saying that claims and accusations added to a lawsuit Friday are untrue.
A report attached to the lawsuit Friday contains allegations that Roberts, 51, spent a great deal of time with an underage male.
"I live my life in a morally upright manner and throughout my marriage have never, ever engaged in any sexual behavior with any man outside of my marriage as the accusations imply," Roberts said in her statement.
"Allegations against me in a lawsuit .
Indiana's voter ID law protects against fraud
Leading up to the law's passage in 2005, the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission determined that all states, including Indiana, experienced repeated acts of in-person voter fraud. Simultaneously, the National Crime Prevention Council reported that identity theft had become and continues to be the fastest-growing crime in our nation. Just like we now take precautions to prevent ourselves from becoming victims of identity theft when making everyday transactions, simply showing one of several government-issued IDs before voting protects our most sacred civic transaction -- one person, one vote -- from being violated by those who would cheat to win what are becoming an ever-increasing number of close elections. Because the potential existed for pervasive voter fraud and consequent disenfranchisement of legitimate voters, we implemented a comprehensive package of laws designed to improve the integrity of elections.
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