 include a “grand coalition” between the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and the SPD, but talks between the two sides ended last week without an agreement last week. The SPD and Greens could also try to form a minority government supported by the socialists from The Left part, or voters could be forced to go to the polls again.
State premier Jürgen Rüttgers’s Christian Democrats lost heavily in last month’s election, which was widely seen as sign of dissatisfaction with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s performance at the federal level.
A non resident Indian father-son duo in the United States have been charged with defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency of funds meant for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Ramesh Patel, 51, and Chirag Patel, 26, of Union City, Georgia, were arraigned Monday. The defendants were earlier indicted by a federal grand jury on June 19, a media report said.
"These defendants allegedly billed FEMA by claiming that Hurricane Katrina evacuees stayed at their hotel on certain nights, when in fact they did not stay at their hotel," said US Attorney David Nahmias.
"They took advantage of the chaos created by Hurricane Katrina and robbed the taxpayers of tens of thousands of dollars earmarked for emergency housing. Such conduct simply will not be tolerated," he was quoted as saying by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Since October 2005, Ramesh and Chirag Patel owned and operated the Comfort Inn hotel at 6800 Shannon Parkway in Union City.
The hotel housed several Katrina evacuees in several pre-designated rooms.
Once the evacuee checked in, the defendants submitted periodic requests for payment to FEMA for housing the evacuees. FEMA paid the hotel by mailing checks.
An investigation into the requests for payment revealed, however, that the hotel had billed FEMA for guests who either did not stay at the hotel, or had left the hotel and found a permanent residence, the report said.
The rooms that were supposedly occupied by these evacuees were rented out to non-evacuee guests, or were occupied by the defendants' family members.
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Like the holiday feeling in the air, it’s hard to define just what heart is. It’s intangible, but incredibly important and part of what makes TalentEgg different. It isn’t just hard work and determination, although often fuel for it – it really is so much more.
When talking about the success of TalentEgg and our ongoing goal of connecting employers to Gen Y and Gen Y to employers, we often cite metrics.
Of course, numbers are always a great way of quantifying our success. TalentEgg is the most popular job board for students and grads in Canada. We work with hundreds of leading employers and attract an ever-growing audience of top Gen Y talent.. More than 3 million students and recent grads used TalentEgg.ca in the last year, visiting not just to research employers and view job opportunities, but also to read and share our thousands of career-focused content and resources.
But above and beyond all of these metrics – and perhaps a major source of them – is the heart that’s within everything we do and have done at TalentEgg over the past 5+ years. The passionate, authentic, purposeful, relentless, and truly caring way that our team has approached and executed the building and nurturing of TalentEgg.ca and its community.
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Inside the courtroom, he wore eyeglasses and a prison uniform as well as an ironic smirk that let all know he was doing OK.
Just days before Iran's fateful June 12 presidential election, analyst, economist and writer Saeed Laylaz confided to The Times that he saw dark days ahead.
"I'm worried about the next 10 to 12 days," Laylaz (pictured above, second row, center), a supporter of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, said in an interview in early June. "The government is getting angrier and angrier."
Laylaz proved prophetic. On June 17, days after the disputed election amid the unrest that followed allegations of massive vote-rigging in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's favor, Laylaz was arrested..
Among those who showed up in the court, which critics have derided as a "show trial," the Anglophone Laylaz is well known to outside observers of Iran. He is often cited as an expert on Iran by the major American newspapers and news outlets, including The Times.
In that interview weeks ago at his northeast Tehran apartment, he was concerned that the campaign was taking a bitter turn, with candidates publicly accusing one another of corruption.
"I've never seen anything like this when the president says everyone was corrupt before me and the other guys say, 'No, you're the corrupt one,'" he said. "The harsh rhetoric is reflecting badly on the regime."
Laylaz feared how the supporters of Ahmadinejad would respond to a defeat.
In almost whispered tones, he suggested shadowy forces would respond badly if their boy didn't win.
He also said Ahmadinejad's opponents had figured out a strategy to defeat the incumbent.
The plan was to hammer away at Ahmadinejad's claims of being a man of the people by zeroing in on the perceived lack of ethics inside his government, and to undermine his talk of bringing international glory to Iran by decrying what he had done to the nation's reputation.
Iranians' worries about their financial well-being would do the rest, he predicted.
"We started out down 3 to 0," he said back then. "Now we're 3 to 3, and we're winning. We're just worried about the referee."
-- Borzou Daragahi in Beirut
Photo: Journalist Saeed Laylaz, second row, center, appears as a prisoner but does speak at a trial against Ahmadinejad's opponents in Tehran on Tuesday. Credit: Fars News Agencythe jumpsuit of my dreams
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