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Monday, April 30, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Exclusive: U.S. Cash Went to Iraq Insurgents

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Today: 1WTC To Be NYC’s Tallest Building, 1WTC To Be NYC’s Tallest Building, Suu Kyi to Take Oath of Office
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

April 30, 2012
EXCLUSIVE

According to a new audit, some of the $4 billion authorized to improve relations between the two countries actually went into the pockets of the insurgents the U.S. was trying to fight. The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake reports on what happened with Commander's Emergency Response Program—and why the program was still called a success.

NEW HEIGHTS

The Manhattan skyline’s highest point will shift downtown Monday, if the weather holds, as workers erect the 100th floor of the new 1 World Trade Center. The building’s steady upward climb over New York City continues, and the new floor will take it to 1,271 feet, more than 20 feet taller than the Empire State Building. The structure, when completed, is planned to top out at 1,776 feet. The building will have a rooftop parapet with a height of 1,368 feet, the same vertigo-inducing altitude reached by the 1 World Trade Center building destroyed in 2001. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the structure “the most complex construction site ever.”

NEW HEIGHTS

The Manhattan skyline’s highest point will shift downtown Monday, if the weather holds, as workers erect the 100th floor of the new 1 World Trade Center. The building’s steady upward climb over New York City continues, and the new floor will take it to 1,271 feet, more than 20 feet taller than the Empire State Building. The structure, when completed, is planned to top out at 1,776 feet. The building will have a rooftop parapet with a height of 1,368 feet, the same vertigo-inducing altitude reached by the 1 World Trade Center building destroyed in 2001. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the structure “the most complex construction site ever.”

DEMOCRACY

Aung San Suu Kyi and her party agreed Monday to take their seats in Burma’s Parliament later this week, despite a bitter disagreement over the wording of their oath of office. The oath requires that lawmakers vow to “safeguard the Constitution,” a promise that rankled the reform leader. Suu Kyi heads the National League for Democracy, which has pledged amendments to the Constitution, saying that it gives undue power to the country’s military. The new Parliament will be formed Wednesday.

HIPSTER

Never mind that Mitt Romney read a Letterman Top 10 list or George W. Bush went on Oprah—the right’s latest line of attack is aimed at Obama’s Fallon visit. The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz on how it underscores a bigger problem: Romney will always be the stiff candidate compared with Obama’s cool candidate.


TIGHTROPE
Pakistan: Drone Strikes ‘Violative’
CIA drone killed three suspected militants Sunday.
TECH
Microsoft Invests $300M in Nook
Barnes & Noble shares rocket on deal.
CAGED
Ohio Zoo Animals to Go to Widow
Only five survived after husband freed them.
MAY DAY
Occupy Wall Street, Take 2
Large demonstrations planned for May 1.
TRAGIC
Hudson 911 Tape to Be Released
Call made by actress’s sister after mother’s murder.
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