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Walking
Through North Bexley
It
held off on the rain, though the air was brisk.
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Of
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Investigators say ex-Medicare chief should repay salary
| NYT
The Bush administration
illegally withheld data from Congress on the cost of the new Medicare
law, and as a penalty, the former head of the Medicare agency, Thomas
A. Scully, must repay seven months of his salary to the government,
federal investigators said today.
The investigators,
from the Government Accountability Office, said that Mr. Scully
had threatened to fire the chief Medicare actuary in violation of
an explicit provision of federal appropriations law.
He threatened
to fire the chief actuary if the chief actuary told Congress what
the new law would cost.
Why would they
want to know that?
Indonesia's
'tired' politics | BBC
...it
was in the ancient Kraton, or palace of Cirebon, on the northern
coast of Java, that I met a young guide who summed up Indonesia's
spirit of accommodation most succinctly.
She
was a student at the local Islamic school and after school hours
she would go to the palace to offer free tours to layabout itinerant
scholars like me.
Pointing to
the obvious Indian and Chinese influences that could be seen all
over the palace complex, she grinned and said smilingly:
"Don't
you think it was nice to live then in the past, when we were so
open to all these foreign cultures?
