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These candle votives have the appearance of mosaics but are FAR easier to create. Unique paint and contact paper help transform these plain glass votives from Krylon.
- Krylon Make It Pearl! Pearlescent Paint - Sheer Pearl (#1207)
- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor (combination of any 3 colors)
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- Clear glass candleholder
- Clear Contact paper
- Scissors
Wash and dry candleholders thoroughly. Set aside.
Cut 3 sheets of Contact paper, approximately 10" square. (Depending on size of candleholders, this may vary.)
Place all 3 sheets paper side down and anchor corners to prevent curling. Spray each piece of Contact paper with a different color of Indoor/Outdoor paint. Let dry. Spray lightly with Make it Pearl. Let dry completely.
Turn painted sheets over. There is a 1/2" grid pattern on the paper side of the Contact paper. Cut the sheets into 1/2" strips.
For each candleholder use 3 colors of painted paper. Remove backing from several strips of each color to reveal the sticky side. Anchor an edge of each strip onto work surface, leaving the rest of the strip hanging down. (Hint: this step will make your mosaic work go faster.)
Snip several 1/2" squares from one color and place near top edge of candleholder, spaced slightly apart. (Please note: this type of mosaic work is not an "exact" art, so your squares and spacing should vary in size). Referring to photo, use squares of all 3 colors to finish the first row.
When you start the second row, and each row thereafter, be sure to leave a little space between rows, and try to place squares so they do not line up exactly with squares above them. Please refer to the photograph for example.
- After you have completed all rows, be sure that all edges on squares are adhered to the surface. With Leafing Pen, fill in all clear spaces on glass. From time to time you will need to press the tip of the pen down for more paint. Have a scrap piece of paper or cardboard ready to use for this purpose. Keep a lot of paint on the tip so that stroke marks aren't visible. Let dry.
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Though the board did not address allegations that Henderson, 45, was driving drunk while on Grissom's campus over the weekend, Dr. Casey Wardynski said after the meeting that he was going to recommend today that the coach be fired. Having decided earlier in the week that the coach must go, Wardynski said he gave him the option to resign or be terminated.
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Heading to Maui a few days after St. Patrick's Day celebrations, the Irish band Danu is acclaimed for its commitment to preserving traditional music.
"It's amazing to be playing music that was handed down through hundreds of years but seems to be as fresh as the day it was composed," says Danu co-founder Benny McCarthy. "Traditional Irish music is very accessible for the listener and to dance to, so it is always enjoyable to play. I like the true social connection it has with everybody."
The six-member group includes McCarthy on button accordion, vocalist/flutist Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, guitarist Donal Clancy, fiddle player Oisin McAuley, bodhran drummer Martin O'Neill and Irish bouzouki player Eamon Doorley.
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Irish band Danu performs at 7:30 p.m. March 20 in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Castle Theater.
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And all have illustrious solo careers aside from playing with Danu.
"They are all highly regarded individually," McCarthy says. "We all really enjoy meeting up to tour and combining the talents is really something special and we don't take it for granted."
The driving force of the band, McCarthy won the All Ireland Oireachtas (championship) in 1994 on both button accordion and melodeon. He is also a key member of several other bands, including Raw Bar Collective, The Tin Sandwich Band and Rattle The Boards.
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"I began learning the accordion at the age of 13 years from the great maestro accordion player Bobby Gardiner," he explains. The instrument really impressed me from the start. I began taking them apart and looking inside to see how they work, and nowadays I rebuild and repair old accordions in my spare time. I talk constantly with some of the worlds' great builders of accordion and have had special models built to my spec."
Founded by high school friends McCarthy and guitarist Donal Clancy, the son of Liam Clancy of the influential Clancy Brothers, Danu was named after an Irish mother goddess.
"We were actually given this name by a friend in 1995," McCarthy notes. "It's the name of a Celtic goddess, the queen goddess. We were actually an all-male group until Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh joined us in 2003. Ireland is one of the big Celtic regions, and our music and language is of Celtic origin, so why not use a Celtic name?"
After releasing their debut recording in 1997, the band has routinely drawn laudatory reviews for its albums. Irish Music praised their album, "All Things Considered," for "the astonishing versatility and exuberance of the band's members. The musicianship remains of the highest order."
In 2004, Danu released "Up in the Air," featuring solo performances by its members. "All the band members get a chance to strut their stuff, and the results are effortless wonders of instrumental and vocal prowess," raved an AllMusic review. "The two beautiful tracks from singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh are definite highlights. Danu are staunch purveyors of Celtic music played in an organic - yet still contemporary enough to win over the younger crowd - fashion."
Reviewing their most recent studio album, "When all is Said and Done," Hot Press praised: "Danu are one of the few trad acts currently on the go who bring a sense of vibrant edginess to their impeccable credentials. While they always show due loyalty to their heritage they can also invigorate old tunes with new zest, and while treating the tradition with total respect they can also have themselves (and us) a bundle of fun."
Along with traditional Irish jigs and reels, Danu occasionally includes English folk songs in its repertoire. On "The Road Less Traveled," they featured the Sandy Denny/Richard Thompson composition "Farewell, Farewell," sung beautifully by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.
"We are big fans of all folk music, and bands out of England like Fairport Convention have given us some great songs and tunes to work with," McCarthy says. "I was a big fan of their album 'Liege and Lief,' and thought this song would work well for Muireann when she joined us in 2003."
Feeling proud that they are helping preserve Irish culture through their music, McCarthy concludes: "It's a great honor, and as a friend of mine always maintains, we don't own this music. We simply carry it through life, and pass it on to younger people and make lots of people happy along the way. We are hitting nearly 20 years as a band in 2015, with lots of shows and lots of experience."
Mulligan's on The Blue will celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Monday with music, dancing and food. The music lineup features the Polka Paddy's Irish dance band at noon, Crunch Pups at 2 p.m.; Celtic Tigers at 4 p.m. and Willie K from 8 p.m. to closing. The day also includes a contest for "Best Hat" and "Best Leprechaun Outfit."
Jazz/R&B vocal icon Al Jarreau will perform in the Castle Theater on May 30. Since his debut recording in 1975, Jarreau has won seven Grammy awards. He is the only vocalist in history to net a Grammy in three different categories - jazz, pop and R&B. Tickets go on sale to MACC members at 10 a.m. Saturday, and to the general public on March 22.
Also coming to the MACC, will be Sarah Lee Guthrie, the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie, and Johnny Irion, the grand-nephew of author John Steinbeck, who perform as a duo. They play the McCoy Studio Theater on March 28.
With John Cruz gearing up to release a new album, the popular entertainer will perform a dinner show at Stella Blues Cafe on Friday (and March 29). Cruz has been working with recording engineer/drummer Nir Z, who is best known as the former drummer for Genesis (after Phil Collins). Nir has also recorded with artists like John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Joss Stone. On March 21, Paula Fuga returns to Stellas for a dinner show joined by Mike Love and Sam Ites.
With Bob Dylan's concert at the MACC drawing closer, it's a good time to explore some Dylanology trivia with a top 10 fun facts list.
1. Before he renamed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly adopted the name Elston Gunn.
2. Dylan's first professional recording was as a harmonica player at a Harry Belafonte session in 1960. He was paid $50.
3. In 10th grade, Dylan and his backing band were rejected from a high school talent show because the student council judged his performance at the audition too shocking.
4. He received a D-plus in a music-appreciation class at the University of Minnesota.
5. In 1960, Tommy Smothers of the famous Smothers Brothers comedy duo tried to get a Denver club manager to kick Dylan off the bill, complaining that his voice was awful.
6. About to make his national TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963, Dylan refused to go on when a CBS TV censor informed the musician that he couldn't play his song, "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues." Dylan's song satirized the ultraconservative political organization formed in 1958 to fight Communist threats in the U.S., Sullivan would later denounce the network's decision. The song was included on advance copies of his album, "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," but it was removed prior to the official release. It did not officially appear on an album until the Bootleg Series in 1991.
7. The "Freewheelin'" album had a major impact on The Beatles. "We just played it, just wore it out," George Harrison once reported. "The content of the song lyrics and just the attitude, it was incredibly original and wonderful."
8. Dylan and John Lennon once wrote and recorded a song together while Dylan was on tour in England. "I don't remember what it was," Dylan told an interviewer. "We played some stuff into a tape recorder, but I don't know what happened to it. I don't remember anything about the song."
9. After the death of Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in 1969, Jones was buried in a lavish silver and bronze metal casket flown in from America and paid for by Dylan.
10. Pseudonyms Dylan has used when appearing on other artists' records include Tedham Porterhouse, Robert Milkwood Thomas, Roosevelt Gook and Blind Boy Grunt.


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THE OLD GUARD: Left to right, former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a Communist-trained technocrat and Soviet industrial manager; a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin; and Vice President Al Gore, who supported Chernomyrdin's requests for subsidies to the Russian central government. Gore ignored evidence of Chernomyrdin's corruption. He and Chernomyrdin met in Stalin's country house in a Moscow forest on July 14, 1996. AP Photo/Pool
The truth about corruption is difficult to hear and difficult to speak. But once the truth is spoken and heard and known, the truth itself acquires a power that can transform nations and our world.
Vice President Al Gore, February 26, 1999
There have been a lot of charges and innuendo [about Viktor Chernomyrdin] but there has been no proof, no smoking gun, and certainly no indictment in a Russian court.
Leon Fuerth (Al Gore's National Security Adviser), as quoted in the Washington Post, July 27, 2000
Facts are stubborn things.
President Ronald Reagan, August 15, 1988
The 1995 CIA Report
In 1995, CIA officials dispatched to the White House a secret report based upon the agency's large dossier documenting the corrupt practices of then-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin, who with Vice President Gore co-chaired the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. The private assets that Chernomyrdin had accumulated in his official position, according to Russian security sources, ran into the billions of dollars.1 When the confidential classified report on Chernomyrdin reached Vice President Gore, however, he refused to accept it. Instead, he sent it back to the CIA with the word "BULL****" scrawled across it.2
When the New York Times first reported these grotesque facts, White House and CIA officials denied that the report existed. The National Journal, however, reported approximately six months later that it had independently confirmed the Times account.3 A few months later still, the Washington Post wrote that CIA sources, "had it that the report came back with 'bull----!' scrawled in the vice president's handwriting."4
It is difficult to imagine a more dangerously intemperate reaction by the vice president to official corruption in Russia. Yet this was hardly an isolated incident. The administration had ignored repeated earlier warnings of corruption by Chernomyrdin and other senior Russian officials. Several senior Clinton administration officials have confirmed that they had received a number of reports from the CIA alleging corruption by Chernomyrdin, and that the CIA had submitted many other reports alleging corruption among other senior Russian leaders, including Anatoly B. Chubais.5 "My review of CIA's published material persuades me that it has reported to its readership persuasively and in depth that crime and corruption are pervasive problems in Russia," said a CIA ombudsman tasked with investigating the CIA's work after the first New York Times article about the vice president's "barnyard epithet" appeared.6
It is therefore clear that the vice president rejected not an initial report unsupported by other evidence, but rather a detailed report built on extensive earlier work by the CIA of which Gore must have been aware. Moreover, the allegations against Chernomyrdin were made in the context of numerous charges against other senior Russian leaders--suggesting widespread corruption at the top levels of the Russian government.
Gore's close personal relationship to Viktor Chernomyrdin--and not any superior intelligence that he possessed as Vice President--was therefore obviously decisive in his emotional dismissal of the CIA intelligence report of Chernomyrdin's corruption. At the same time that he was receiving reports of Chernomyrdin's corruption and the growing anger of the Russian people over the power of the oligarchs, the vice president was effusive in his public comments about Chernomyrdin. In June 1995, as they stood together in Moscow, he displayed his lack of objectivity. "Friends have a right to be proud of friends," Gore proclaimed. He added: "The longer one works with [Chernomyrdin], the deeper one's respect grows for his ability to get things done."7
Chernomyrdin Allegations--No Secret
The Clinton-Gore administration's knee-jerk dismissal of top-secret corruption allegations against Viktor Chernomyrdin was all the more remarkable taking into account the extensive information available in open sources, including the Russian and U.S. media.
For example, in the summer of 1995 a respected U.S. analyst of Russian affairs wrote a comprehensive article in the Washington Post detailing wide-ranging charges against the Russian prime minister.8 Peter Reddaway, a political science professor at George Washington University and former director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, cited accusations by Boris Fyodorov, who had served as Russia's Deputy Prime Minister for Finance, that Chernomyrdin illicitly obtained significant holdings of stock in Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly, during the firm's privatization--a privatization that Fyodorov characterized as "the biggest robbery of the century, perhaps of human history."9 Chernomyrdin was thus made one of the ten richest men in Russia (Gazprom was worth up to $700 billion). Reddaway also noted similar charges by Vladimir Polevanov, also a former Deputy Prime Minister, in a nationally televised interview in Russia. The New York Times reported in July 1995 that Chernomyrdin's son was building "an enormous country home" in a Gazprom compound, and that he was also thought to be "one of the company's largest shareholders."10
Chernomyrdin's continuing links to Gazprom after his entry into government were also widely reported. In fact, a March 1995, cable from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow signed by then-Ambassador Thomas Pickering directly alluded to Chernomyrdin's continuing involvement with Gazprom after he entered government, and with Gazprom's extraordinary influence over the government:
A former 'Gazprom' director--Viktor Chernomyrdin, who Embassy sources report spends a significant amount of his time on 'Gazprom' business--is prime minister. An aide to current 'Gazprom' director Rem Vyakhirev said recently that, when there are problems in his sector, 'they (the federal government) do not tell us what to do, we tell them what needs to be done.'11
Numerous public sources noted Chernomyrdin's specific role in ensuring that the gas monopoly paid minimal taxes. One expert estimated that Gazprom's tax breaks cost the Russian budget up to $30 billion12--an immense sum relative to total Russian revenues and expenditures (for example, Russia received less than $15 billion from international financial institutions in the four-year period from 1992 to 1995). This lost revenue had a grave effect on the government's ability to cope with the struggling Russian economy. In this sense, the Clinton administration's uncritical support for Chernomyrdin directly undermined the U.S. policy of encouraging Russia to increase tax collections.
Gazprom in return had provided funds for Chernomyrdin's parliamentary campaign in December 1995.13
In 1998, a book by Russian security officer Valery Streletsky added further public evidence that Chernomyrdin tolerated massive corruption within his government. The author, who headed a unit tasked with investigating government corruption, states that Chernomyrdin's long-time chief of staff, Gennady Petelin, amassed tens of millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts.14 The author further reported that Chernomyrdin's own chief of security personally told him:
Viktor Stepanovich [Chernomyrdin] relates seriously to cadres. This practice has been worked out over years. He thinks: let a good person steal 10% but do what is necessary with the other 90%.15
MORE "BULL****"?: Vice President Al Gore on Meet the Press, July 16, 2000, where he denied scrawling "Bull****" across a CIA report of Chernomyrdin's corruption in 1995, but inadvertently acknowledged both the existence of the specific report and his categorical dismissal of it. Newsmakers/Mark Wilson
Chernomyrdin was recently brought into court to testify about his role in the illegal export of $180 million worth of diamonds and gold during his administration.16 As this report was being prepared, Russian press accounts quoted Swiss police sources as stating that tens of millions of dollars had been transferred into Swiss bank accounts controlled by Chernomyrdin during his tenure as prime minister.17 The transfers were made by Mercata Trading, a firm linked to Mabetex, which is at the center of a major kickback scandal involving $300 million in Russian government contracts, including the scandal-ridden renovation of the Kremlin itself.
Given that Chernomyrdin served as prime minister for five and a half years, his embrace of corruption fundamentally compromised Russia's efforts at economic reform. In this way, the Clinton administration--and Gore personally--contributed not only to Russia's failure to overcome corruption, but to the spread of corruption throughout the Russian political system.
Gore's failure to heed U.S. intelligence by showing discretion about Chernomyrdin and other corrupt officials in his public diplomacy--his willful blindness, and that of other senior administration officials to the overwhelming public and classified evidence of official Russian corruption--sent precisely the wrong signal to U.S. intelligence analysts, who had proven their regional expertise by accurately predicting the collapse of the Soviet Empire.18
The New York Times reported the effect of the vice president's disdain for politically inconvenient intelligence:
The incident has fostered a perception in the agency's ranks that the Administration is dismissive of 'inconvenient' intelligence about corruption among the Russian leaders with whom White House and State Department officials have developed close personal relationships.19
One intelligence official has stated publicly: "They never want to hear this stuff." Another commented: "They don't ignore it. But they don't want to have to act on it." Current and former U.S. intelligence officials expressed similar views:
"'It [Chernomyrdin's corruption] was all laid out for Gore [in 1995] ... and he didn't want to hear it. Our government knew damn well what was happening.'"20
Senior administration officials including Gore "definitely didn't want to know about corruption around Yeltsin. That was politically uncomfortable."21
The former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Fritz Ermarth, who retired from the CIA in 1998, wrote of senior Clinton administration officials that they had a "disdain for analysis about corruption of Russian politics and their Russian partners ... "22 Ermarth notes that this disdain was particularly strong during the critical 1993-96 period.
They Know That We Know
Russian assessments of what the U.S. knew about Russian corruption also undermine the Clinton administration's claims of ignorance. For example, a report by a think tank associated with the Russian military, the Russian Institute of Defense Studies, states specifically:
Special services of Western countries have full access today to all documentation of joint ventures and other partners of Russian exporters, they have the originals of financial documents, they are knowledgeable regarding the movement of commodity resources and financial flows, they have information on bank account numbers of the 'new Russians,' and they know about their real estate and securities transactions abroad.
The report, issued contemporaneously with the Gore "bull****" incident, further stated:
And it should be understood that ... the outflow of resources and capital from Russia abroad in the form in which it is being accomplished today is criminalized to the highest degree and represents not only a violation of domestic laws but also the grossest violation of laws of the western countries themselves.23
Yet even as publicly available Russian sources concluded that information about the full extent of Russian official corruption was known to Western intelligence services, the top Clinton administration policy makers chose to ignore it.
A System for Rejecting All 'Inconvenient' Intelligence
Vice President Gore has hedged his denial of the "bull****" incident, saying, "I don't think" that "[I] ever wrote a message of that kind." At the same time, however, he and other senior Clinton-Gore officials have publicly dismissed the CIA reports. Indeed, when asked whether "bull****" had ever been scrawled across a CIA report, Gore plainly referred to a specific CIA report, saying , "whoever sent that over there [could not have] expected the White House to be impressed with it ... it was a very sloppy piece of work."24 Other administration officials dismissed the CIA reports as "rumor," and denied that the CIA had provided "conclusive proof."25
But agency reporting is necessarily based on intelligence sources, often covert. By conveniently demanding a "smoking gun" whenever they sought to suppress uncomfortable facts, Gore and other top Clinton administration officials established standards of proof that were impossible to meet. The result was a rigged system for rejecting all "inconvenient" intelligence whenever it suited the preferences of the White House.
Such misuse of intelligence data deepened the mistrust between the White House and the Intelligence Community. CIA officials have described the resultant "frequent tensions between the agency and policy makers over reporting."26 According to one CIA official:
These people [the Clinton-Gore administration] have expected something no one in the intelligence community could provide--judicial burden of proof. ... Did we have an authenticated videotape of the person actually receiving a bribe? No. But reporting from established, reliable sources was written off as 'vague and unsubstantiated.'27
CIA officials have described the intelligence information concerning Chernomyrdin that was provided to Gore as "more detailed and conclusive than allegations of bribery and insider dealing that have been made in the Russian media and elsewhere."28 Yet when asked--as recently as July 2000--whether Chernomyrdin is corrupt, Gore replied: "I have no idea."29
False Choices
Recently, Leon Fuerth, the vice president's national security adviser, has tried to play down the widespread intelligence community condemnation of Gore's disdain for official reporting by arguing that the problem of corruption "was on the [Gore-Chernomyrdin] Commission agenda."30 But it is difficult to see how a Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission could meaningfully attack the problem of Chernomyrdin's own corruption, or that of his associates. Indeed, addressing corruption in partnership with Chernomyrdin, whom another former Russian official called "the chief mafioso of the country,"31 was tantamount to endorsing Russia's corrupt status quo.
Gore's lavish praise for Chernomyrdin, and his intentional personalization of their relationship make it equally impossible to accept Fuerth's claim that Gore had no alternative but to deal with the prime minister. (The Clinton administration, Fuerth stated, had either to "boycott the government of Russia" or "deal with [Chernomyrdin]"32--an obviously false choice.) Gore's embrace of Chernomyrdin and the ever-larger role assigned to the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission went far beyond what was justified by what the U.S. government knew of him, and by the Commission's meager results.33
The pro-forma inclusion of official corruption "on the agenda" of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, along with scores of other topics large and small, is quite different from making its eradication a priority. The content of the Clinton administration's policy on Russian corruption has amounted to general disinterest. It has offered lip service34 while failing to act on specific problems such as money-laundering until forced by events.
The very serious allegations made against the Russian Prime Minister and Vice President Gore's partner in the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, amply set forth in official U.S. intelligence reports, were simply rejected by the Clinton administration as the scope of the issues assigned to the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission was steadily increased. Indeed, to the extent that President Clinton seemed willing to give an ever-increasing role in the U.S.-Russian relationship to the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, Gore stood to benefit from maintaining his continued close personal relationship with Chernomyrdin.
In light of Chernomyrdin's notorious corruption, the expansion of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission's role and the decision to make it the fulcrum of U.S. policy were a serious error that abetted the growth of official corruption and crime in Russia, to the detriment of the Russian people and the longer-term U.S.-Russian relationship.35 Broader, less centralized cooperation with the Russian government and a less fulsome embrace of Chernomyrdin could have averted these problems, and kept the United States on the side of reform.
The Larger Pattern
Vice President Gore's approach to evidence of Chernomyrdin's corruption is a microcosm of the approach he and the Clinton administration took towards the problem of corruption, which extended far beyond Viktor Chernomyrdin.
As Wayne Merry, a senior official at the Moscow Embassy during the first part of the Clinton administration, testified in September 1999:
It is now asked, "What did our policy makers know about corruption in Russia and when did they know it?" I can only say that anyone involved with Russia--in government or on the street--knew about it all along. There was no secret. Even if the Embassy and the CIA had not written a word, the Western press covered the story fairly well, while the Russian media reported on corruption constantly ... . Anyone who wanted to know, knew. The real questions are, "Did our policy makers care, and what did they do about it?"36
The answer to these questions is clear, not only in the case of Chernomyrdin but in many other cases as well. The Clinton administration repeatedly ignored evidence and sought to politicize the analytical process, routinely dismissing or stifling reporting that did not support their policies or fit their political requirements.
Donald Jensen served as a second secretary in the U.S. embassy in Moscow from 1993-1995 and returned to Moscow in 1996. During his 1996 work at the embassy, Jensen wrote a 10-page cable identifying Russian oligarchs who were using their government connections to win control of prized enterprises. According to Jensen, his cable was killed by a Clinton administration Treasury official who worked in the Moscow embassy.
The administration official, Jensen stated, justified suppressing factual reporting about Russian official corruption by arguing that "if the memo were sent to Washington, it could be leaked to the press, and that would undermine U.S. policy."37
Jensen told "Frontline" that the cable was never sent because "it was bad news, and we [the Clinton administration] were intent on making our policies work."38 Moreover, he added:
if corruption was shown to exist in any significant degree ... that was criticism of the [Clinton] policy because we had argued for a number of years that these things--these policies--were for the good of Russia, and that if you now say that the government's completely corrupt, that it's linked directly or indirectly with organized crime, you're essentially saying the policy the U.S. government has followed over the past few years was wrong.39
Thomas Graham, the head of the U.S. Embassy's political section in Moscow from 1994-1997, confirmed Jensen's account in an interview in the Washington Post.40
In the same article, Graham's predecessor in Moscow, Wayne Merry, said the embassy, "was under constant pressure to find evidence that American policy was producing tangible successes, especially after the creation of the 'Gore-Chernomyrdin' working group." Merry also said that the Clinton administration's desire to make the Gore-Chernomyrdin commission a success prevented reporting "about the realities of crime and corruption ... failures in the privatization and general bad news."
Graham argues compellingly that the dismissal of such reporting by senior Clinton administration officials was a direct consequence of their personal relationships with a handful of Russian officials.41 Because senior Clinton administration officials became so close with their counterparts in the Russian government, he suggests, over time they came to trust their Russian interlocutors more than reports from within their own government. Thus, senior Clinton administration officials came to rely upon their Russian partners not only for information, but for analysis and policy recommendations as well; as a result, the CIA, the embassy staff, and other independent sources of information were marginalized.
At times the Clinton administration has positively hindered the uncovering of official corruption: the Swiss government has recently complained of U.S. refusal to cooperate with its criminal investigations into official Russian corruption. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, a Swiss investigative magistrate, formally requested assistance from the U.S. government in his investigation into the Bank of New York case in September 1999 and began a series of detailed requests for information and assistance in January 2000, but to date has received little cooperation.42
An article in the National Journal suggests that the Clinton administration's policy toward Russia may be a classic case of "groupthink," a psychological process in which "wishful thinking, shaky premises, and a tendency to deny facts at odds with the cognitive underpinnings of a course of action to which a group is committed" can lead to flawed decision-making and policy failures.43 Moreover, because the decision-makers involved in "groupthink" are unable to admit their own errors, they become trapped in a "tangled muddle of self-justification, denial, and distortion." The National Journal analysis attributes much of the problem in Russia policy to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. They, like Vice President Gore, were unwilling, and eventually unable, to distinguish the imagined world of their own policies from the real world of an increasingly desperate Russia. As a result, the Clinton administration continued, and even intensified, activities that were plainly destructive.


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Fashion was frequently held up by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists of western modernity (including Baudelaire, Veblen, Simmel, and Benjamin) as a quintessentially modern form. One hundred years later, theorists and historians of modernity have returned to the analysis of fashion, recognizing it as an important indicator of a host of modern phenomena.
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During a follow-up interview to Wednesday's privacy controls announcement, Wired asked Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg what he thought of Diaspora, the anti-Facebook project that four NYU students will spend the summer building. Zuckerberg's response: "I donated. I think it is a cool idea."
His support for an idea that directly opposes the openness of Facebook is somewhat surprising, especially since Zuckerberg is intent on "making the world more open."
How much Zuckerberg donated to Diaspora's Kickstarter fund is unknown, but he revealed that he's motivated to help these college kids because he sees "a little of myself in them."
Zuckerberg also claims to welcome a different approach to sharing, and looks forward to seeing whether these NYU students can come up with a new solution for handling the trickier challenges Facebook has faced in dealing with privacy around content shared with friends of friends.
We find the gesture to be quite benevolent, although it could be a more calculated maneuver to help paint the CEO in a more positive light.


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William Shawcross: Murdoch Has Been the Bravest Media Owner in Britain in the Last 40 YearsRoundup: Media's Take
William Shawcross's most recent book is Allies: the United States, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq.
The real question raised by Tom Watson's self-regarding assertion about Rupert Murdoch's "fitness" to run a media company is whether Watson himself (and those MPs who voted with him) are themselves fit for purpose. We usually criticise foreign politicians or governments when they try to interfere with their free press. Watson wants to do the same; he wants Murdoch to be divested of his company.
This is not a matter of principle. Through all the long years (too long, in my view) of the Sun's support for Blair and Brown, Watson and his friends made no such complaints. But in 2009 Brown, as we know, was enraged when the Sun switched to the Conservatives. According to Andrew Neil and Murdoch himself, he vowed revenge on Murdoch's company. This is it. Watson is the instrument of Brown's fury – he is fiercely partisan, not fiercely principled.
There is no question that serious wrongdoing took place at the News of the World, both in the original hacking and in the company's failure to pursue and reveal what went wrong. Rupert and James Murdoch have each acknowledged that; they and the company and many of those who work for it are paying a terrible price for these failures. Those who hate Murdoch will have simple reactions: "Serves him right" and "About time too".
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Tallahassee, Fla. -
Long a driver's code of ethics, flashing your headlights to oncoming motorist warning them of a cop ahead, may soon be legit in Florida.
Until now, FHP has been issuing tickets for that but a recent legal challenge by an Oviedo law firm may be shutting that practice down. In response to the legal challenge, the legislature has passed a bill, HB 1223, that allows motorist to do this, and it has been send to Gov. Rick Scott's desk for his signature. The bill passed by overwhelming numbers therefore is unlikely to be vetoed.
Reacting to this, the FHP issued a directive to all Florida troopers to stop issuing those tickets.
The law firm the filed the legal challenge is arguing that the FHP mis-interpreted the law and on that basis was issuing citations and other argue it violated freedom of speech.
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HOMEWOOD, Alabama -- A proposal by the owners of a budget hotel in Homewood to change a settlement that would keep the business operating for another year was rejected by the city council Monday night.
The owners of the America's Best Value Inn and Suites proposed changing a court settlement with the city that would allow the hotel to keep operating until July 31, 2015. The settlement called for them to sell or cease business operations by July 31, 2014.
The city pushed to have the hotel closed after police received 148 calls to the business over the course of 32 months, with those calls including drugs, prostitution and homicide.
The Homewood City Council voted unanimously Monday night to reject the proposal.
"We feel like the agreement that was reached is fair and equitable for all parties," Council President Bruce Limbaugh said after the meeting.
Limbaugh said that, as a business owner, he understood the owners' desire to keep the business operating, but said the city stands by the settlement.
"They can sell the property, which is what they said they were going to do originally," he said.
In a statement, the owners of the hotel said they requested the extra time in order to avoid having the property be vacant, bringing down the property values of neighboring areas. They said the property has already been listed for sale.
"We feel that we have been unethically and unfairly mistreated by the city of Homewood in their lack of effort in working with us," the statement said.
The hotel owners also said they have made efforts to reduce the crime at the hotel.
"We cannot control the behavior of other people and we do not have the resources to perform criminal background checks on our guests," the statement said. "The denial at the city council meeting today will not only create a negative impact to our business, but also to the neighboring businesses and residential areas."
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ST. LOUIS — In examining Kentucky's most recent history in the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament, one has to look no further than on the court to Wayne Turner and Scott Padgett, who have played in the last two national championship games.
In examining Michigan State's most recent Final Four history, one has to look in the seats, where Magic Johnson is sitting and watching his alma mater 20 years after leading it to the national title.
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Dennis Connor's North Cove at the World Financial Center in Manhattan is a stopover for many interesting vessels--all docked within view of passersby. This week the Pride of Baltimore is in town. You can even go for a ride.
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Tall Ship Pride of Baltimore II has arrived at Dennis Conner's North Cove for her spring lay-over. She will be here through the weekend before heading off to the Great Lakes.
One of the great things about Pride II is that she will be offering free deck tours to the public Thur (11 to 4), Fri (11 to 4) and Mon (10 to 1). Come on down to see this incredible ship.
She is also offering a full schedule of daysails including Saturday and Sunday which are $55 per person. Sails are limited to 35 passengers so book soon. There is a schedule down at the boat or you could call 888-557-7433.
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2007 Lexus RX 400h SUV 4dr SUV (3.3L 6cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
This has been an exceptional vehicle in all respects! The local dealership has been excellent since purchase. All service has been completed in a timely fashionand with great care for our time and convenience.
2007 Lexus RX 400h SUV 4dr SUV AWD (3.3L 6cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
My 2007 RX 400h has 76,000 trouble free miles. Two aux. batteries, two sets of tires, one factory recall handled in an hour by dealer. Otherwise, no problems. I change the oil every 10,000 miles, get an avg. of 25 MPG on regular. I plan to keep this vehicle until a plug in version with lithium battery is offered.
Offer an after market plug in lithium battery conversion with range of 35 - 50 miles on electric power only.
Our first hybrid and first SUV; had it 7 years (+105k miles), in both city and rural areas (dirt roads). Our 400h performs consistently well, even in blizzards and icy/snowy conditions in hilly New England winters. Super comfortable - I'm 5'5" (and been pregnant twice with this car), hubby is 6' - we both love it. Low maintenance - our only major expenses (besides one new set of tires) have been replacing the battery and brakes. Note to new parents: larger, rear-facing car seats fit best on the passenger side to give taller drivers enough legroom (I fit; hubby doesn't). By far the best SUV I've ever driven - and the hybrid/gas mileage factor is the icing on the cake!
Our 400h averages 27-28mpg on hilly country roads, w/some highways. Comfy, quiet, smooth, luxurious ride. No road noise; plenty of power to get up steep hills and/or accelerate into highway traffic easily (far better than our Prius). Love the heated leather seats, nav system, 6-disc CD player, hands-free bluetooth and moonroof. Cargo space fits two 70-80lb dogs with ease and 40-20-20 seat split provides great flexibility; auto-liftgate in back helpful when juggling kids and bags. Second row fits larger car seats for infants/toddlers (e.g., Chicco Key Fit 30, Britax Advocate 70 CS Convertible/rear-facing) without sacrificing leg room for front passengers (but too crowded for driver's side).
Slightly more cargo space and a slightly wider second row (or the option of a third row) would be great, to fit more than two car seats - or more dogs.
My Lexus 400H is a great car overall, as my ratings have shown. It's a hybrid of course so it has a very smooth engine that does not roar but still makes sound if you accelerate fast. It is very quiet at low speeds and has great features. My particular RX400H has heated leather seats, navigation system and a 6 disk CD player with automatic everything. So, in a few words- it is luxurious. Everything about it is very smooth.
I love how quiet it is below 25mph. It is a modern Lexus so steering is tight and the brakes are fantastic. I feel very in control when I drive it. Great back seats and big trunk. Great speakers too. Since it is a hybrid when you floor it you feel as though it is accelerating very fast even tho it is just the assistance of the battery.
After driving it for 2.5-3 hours my butt becomes very uncomfortable in the seats. Maybe they are not cushioned enough or something but it's very annoying.
The 400h was the first hybrid we owned and we paid a premium at the time. We would not buy a hybrid again. We live in Canada and travel every weekend to snowy conditions. The hybrid is underpowered on the rear axle since it is powered by an electric motor. In situations where the front wheels have low traction and the rear has to take the load it does not perform. We have several friends in British Columbia who Twill not take this vehicle up a driveways if there is snow and ice. Bottom line this is not a 4 wheel. It is an all wheel with insufficient torque in the rear drive train for winter conditions due to a lack of power design in the rear electric drive train. T
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Maybe if you spent less time trolling message boards and more time working, you wouldn't need to be begging for hand-outs.
Guess eBay's not paying your bills anymore? How'd that work out? At least if you had a real job, you'd be eligible for unemployment. Just rest assured, eBay CEO John Donahoe who made $28 million last year, cares about you. Maybe you should send him an email.
I'm going to travel 4 sisters 1 brother 5 states 2 months each and 2 months on the road first stop Bakersfield and than onto Texas followed by Tennessee and than Maryland
Ebay never paid John Osborne's bills. Someone else ran z50com so he could sit here running his sick campaign 247/365 for 12 long failed years. Now if the road doesn't cure him the destination will. I hope that helps.
people used to cower when they used food stamps, now adays they proudley hand the cashier their debt food stamp card
Sentiment: Hold
Go to any dive bar in your town and you'll find most trying to trade a $100 card for $20 in alcohol or drugs. So much for public assistance. So much for my tax dollars.
Please spare us a public display of the ending to your utterly wasted and failed "life". I notice your "Team" still causes you further problems and all put together they don't have a nickel to toss into your cup. The only trip you need take is up the road to Flything's glass house. Frankenstein always returns to its creator. I hope that help.
Don't send John here corpse! My entitled sense of grandiosity and bitterness fills every square inch of my place and the garage has all my rug munching wife's old sex toys. I keep them around because its the closest to that scent I've been for over 10 years. What do you know about anything?
As you say... Fago.... to quote Stan Lee 'nuff said
Another cheating sponge.Gov gives rewards reporting tax cheats like John Osborne.
And his successful SHORT sale of his drug soaked home.10% rewards.
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Text: ReutersProfessional skepticism uses a questioning mind and a critical assessment of audit evidence. That may sound just like regular old skepticism, but in this case, the auditor does not assume that management is either honest or dishonest.Imagine the impact on our workplaces if we could all keep an open mind, pre-judge less, listen more and gather information more effectively.Multiplied across an organization, the potential for better corporate governance and performance is boundless.But how do professional skeptics keep an open mind and ask tough questions about sensitive topics without igniting drama, dissembling and defensiveness?Which brings us to your seven secrets of civil skepticism.
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So heres my problem: i entered a parental code protection in the first days of getting my xbox because i would never need it sinse goin to the internet wasnt in my plans and it also restrained my brother from messing it up.....but the oportunity to use the code never came sinse all the games i played werent age limitet by the parental control....now i've figured out how to use the internet and i cant seem to download or play some of the games i downloaded online...i cant enter the code for some reason...i assumed i rememered the code and the safety question and awnser...but it wouldnt work....so i kinda gave up and assumed i didnt know the code at all and started looking for help online and found out that theres actualy a code to reset the configuration of your console including the parental control but all the codes i found didnt work as expected because it seems that it changes from version to version or in every certain number of xboxes madeso i dont have the actual code needed.(the codes im talking about are a key/button/trigger combination that can be done in the console info menu in the configuration)
calling microsoft doest work beacause in my country the support is so **** that even during the suposed time theres no1 awnsering but a machine telling me to go back to the website i got the number from....so my actual question is: WHAT IS THE CODE I NEED TO RESET MY XBOX CONFIGURATION?
sorry if its long and thanks for the help...hope it helps someone else too :)
Unfortuantly, no one here can help you, even Xbox Ambassadors. All i can say is you will need to call Xbox Support because they have access to account.
That's about the only advice you can get.Devil Dog is correct, only support can help you with this. IF you are truly the owner of the account, they will have no problem helping you over the phone.
well...ive tryed to call xbox and the same thing happened...i know that if i give them my xbox info they'l check the version and tell me what i need but its still a shame that i cant reach them...can i get another advise plz? :)
ok then thanks for the help...ill keep trying :)
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Amazon hasn't necessarily been a true Netflix competitor. Sure its Prime Instant Video service provides similar unlimited streaming content like Netflix, but it's only available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Amazon will truly become a competitor once it makes Prime Instant Video an option for everyone that isn't an Amazon Prime subscriber. According to Reuters, Amazon is getting ready to do just that.Reuters sources have informed them Amazon will soon announce a standalone Prime Instant Video service. The company has apparently struck a deal with Viacom that turned out to be the final step in Amazon's plan to bring Prime Instant Video to the public with attaching Amazon Prime to the offer.
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Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus. It is done to treat certain gynecological conditions, including childbirth complications; cancer; and fibroids, endometriosis, or uterine bleeding that hasn't responded to other treatments.
A total (complete) hysterectomy is removal of the uterus and cervix. A subtotal (also called partial or supracervical) hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, leaving the cervix in place.
A radical hysterectomy is done for some cancers. It is the removal of the uterus, cervix, ovaries, structures that support the uterus, and sometimes the lymph nodes.
The uterus can be removed through:
The ovaries may be removed along with the uterus. The decision about whether to remove or leave the ovaries is based on a woman's wishes and health issues.
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