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Washington diary

By Andreas Frew

23 February 2005

ONE of the least pleasant things to do in Washington is to sit in the witness chair at a congressional oversight committee investigating your agency. It is even less pleasant when your agency is being accused of waste, fraud or some other unethical behaviour. And it gets worse still when the committee members you are sitting before are up for re-election, and want to prove to their constituents that they hate waste, fraud and unethical behaviour more than anyone.

So National Institutes of 午夜福利1000集合 director Elias Zerhouni’s appearance this past summer before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the…

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