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Al Qaida requires its recruits to sign an employment contract that covers such issues as vacation time (five days a month for bachelors)and salary (700 rupees extra for every wife),according to documents analyzed by terrorism experts.The contract,says Army analyst Lt.Col. Joe Felter,"has the same characteristics that you'd expect to see on jobs.com"
Time
Time
The White House's new report on Hurricane Katrina includes a four-page appendix explaining the acronyms of the dozens of agencies and programs involved in disaster response.Among them: (National Interagency Fire Center),NISAC (National Infrastructure and Analysis Center), and NEEP (National Exercise and Evalution Program).
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Members of Congress convicted of crimes committed while in office remain eligible for government pensions.Among the convicted felons getting checks from taxpayers are former Reps. James Traficant ($40,000 annual pension);Dan Rostenkowski ($126,800); and most recently,Randy Duke Cunningham ($36,000.)
USA Today
USA Today
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Though Africa has the globe's highest poverty rate and shortest life expectancy,Africans are the most optimistic people in the world with 57% of those polled saying they expected this year to be better than last,"The only thing keeping people going," said Nigerian political scientist Kayode Fayemi, is hope."
The New York Times
The New York Times
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Chicago Tribune reporters uncovered the identities of 2,600 CIA employees--including many covert operatives-through a basic search of online data services.To the agency's embarrassment,the newspaper also easily found-but did not print--the locations of two dozen "secret" CIA facilities in the U.S.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
More tham 30 books have already been written about Hillary Clinton,and at least a dozen more will hit the stores before the 2008 presidential campaign.Most are highly critical,with titles such as "Can She Be Stopped" "Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless" and "The Shadow Party" "How Hillary Clinton.George Soros,and the Sixties Took Over the Democratic Party"
The New York Observer
The New York Observer