The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-21-2006 Open secrets -- 'Public' salary information hard to obtain Date: 07-21-2006, Friday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions Series: Runaway pay FOUR years after the state's landmark Open Public Records Act took effect, government documents can...

At the Oberlin violin makers' workshop, the key ingredient in building great violins just might be friendship "DOES ANYBODY HAVE A ...?" The question rings out a dozen times as the violin makers' workshop on the campus of Oberlin College, in Ohio, gets...

A leader of one of Rio's premiere samba parade groups was shot to death early Wednesday, just days before the city's famed Carnival celebrations.Guaracy Paes Falcao, 42, vice president of the top-tier samba school Salgueiro, was killed in his car by unidentified gunmen before dawn...

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto acknowledged in an interview Thursday that she has met secretly with President Gen. Musharraf, but said she was increasingly pessimistic about reaching a power-sharing deal with the leader.She told CNN that she and Musharraf have "had an opportunity to...

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