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What We've Found: Gutmann still richly salaried, Karzai gets second term, Bagram's "boom town" expansion, Iraqi oil ministry signs contract and New York City trash being dumped in burbs north of Philly
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What We've Found: Gutmann still richly salaried, Karzai gets second term, Bagram's "boom town" expansion, Iraqi oil ministry signs contract and New York City trash being dumped in burbs north of Philly
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was again among the highest-paid university presidents in the country with an annual salary of well over $1 million, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's salary survey released today.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai automatically won a second term today after his only remaining challenger from the fraud-ridden election in August dropped out of the runoff election planned for Nov. 7, saying he believed the runoff would be as corrupt as the original.
Bagram Air Field, the largest U.S. army base in Afghanistan, already houses about 24,000 military personnel and contractors but is still expanding with rapid construction projects costing millions of dollars, even as President Obama debates whether to send more troops into the country.
The Iraqi oil ministry signed an agreement with a consortium of companies headed by the Italian firm ENI to develop the Zubair oil field in southern Iraq, marking the oil ministry's second major contract since the U.S. invasion. The group will extract 200,000 barrels of oil a day from the field, possibly eventually rising to 1.1 million barrels.
New York Waste Management has been paying townships and property owners in Philadelphia's northern suburbs millions of dollars annually to dump about 2,500 tons of trash from New York City in their landfills every day.
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