1. Dennis Hastert (R–Ill.) spent more than six hours testifying to a House ethics subcommittee.

2. Labour had a good story to tell lowest unemployment in the OECD, good growth, massive if frequently ill–spent expenditure in health and education.

3. The next day she was in another paper without spiky hair, wearing a worried smile because she was anxious that the money the lottery had been designed to raise for good causes was being ill–spent.

4. Barack Obama (D–Ill.) spent yesterday evening in Prince George‘s County, speaking to one of the nation‘s most affluent African American communities in an attempt to convince voters that he has a real chance of becoming the nation‘s first black president.

5. Calling on U.N. members to use the report "to chart a new course" of reform, Bolton said February 22 that "the stakes are too high to sweep these problems under the rug." The problem, Bolton said, involves more than money or integrity.
'4; "The discussion we are having today is about saving lives, not only of the civilians we are trying to protect, but the soldiers and civilians of the countries participating in peacekeeping." "Without accountable, cost–effective, efficient and transparent U.N. procurement practices, the U.N. will not have its essential goods and services, billions of dollars of contributions might be ill spent or not properly accounted and the safety of U.N. peacekeeping operations would be jeopardized," the ambassador said.