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  • Investigators find plenty of bogus degrees at top levels of government

    05/11/2004 8:49:08 AM PDT · by wallcrawlr · 19 replies · 237+ views
    WASHINGTON -- At least 28 senior-level federal employees in eight agencies have bogus college degrees, including three managers at the office that oversees nuclear weapons safety, congressional investigators have found. The problem is likely even bigger, mainly because the government has no uniform way to check whether employees' alma maters are ``diploma mills'' that require little, if any, academic work, the General Accounting Office reported. The findings by the investigative arm of Congress were to be presented to a Senate committee Tuesday. An earlier GAO report revealed how easy it is to buy a degree from a diploma mill; this...
  • Bush Warns Israel Over Palestinian State ("It's in Israel's interest there be a Palestinian state")

    12/12/2003 1:04:57 PM PST · by yonif · 152 replies · 1,053+ views
    News-Journal ^ | 12/12/2003 | GEORGE GEDDA - AP
    WASHINGTON (AP)--President Bush warned Israel anew on Friday not to take actions that would make it harder to create a Palestinian state. ``It's in Israel's interest there be a Palestinian state,'' Bush told reporters at the White House. ``It's in the poor suffering Palestinian people's interest there be a Palestinian state.'' Also Friday, Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said after a meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell that he and Powell agree that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians should begin immediately without preconditions. Shalom added that he hoped Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed...
  • Colonial [school district in DE] cancels business students' Chicago trip

    04/01/2002 5:22:07 AM PST · by foreverfree · 1 replies · 137+ views
    Wilmington (DE) Snooze Journal ^ | 3/31/02 | Edward L. Kenney
    <p>Concerns that the Sears Tower in Chicago is at high risk for a terrorist attack will prevent a group of Colonial School District students from going to the city for a national competition.</p> <p>Eighteen members of the Business Professionals of America chapter at William Penn High School in New Castle did well enough in a state competition in Dover on Feb. 28 and March 1 to qualify for the national contest. The organization prepares students to become business leaders, and its competition tests skills such as job interviewing, accounting and Web site development.</p>