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Former car czar agrees to pay $6.2 million fine
November 18, 2010 11:46 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Obama car czar Steven Rattner has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle federal charges over his role in a "pay-to-play" scandal, but says he won't be "bullied" into accepting a harsher penalty from New York authorities. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed... more » -
US drug war has met none of its goals
May 14, 2010 8:14 AM
Forty years and $1 trillion later, the U.S. drug czar says the war on drugs hasn't been successful. Gil Kerlikowske says that, if anything, the concern about drugs and drug problems has "magnified, intensified." President Barack Obama this week announced a new policy to treat drug use as... more » -
Once-presidential phrase casualty of word war
December 31, 2009 8:47 AM
A Michigan school has proposed interring "shovel ready" and other phrases in its annual list of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. Lake Superior State University also suggests that "transparent/transparency," "czar," "sexting," "tweet," "teachable moment" and "app" should join "shovel ready" in... more »
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