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...searing light into the depths of government ineptitude. In Washington, where the FBI and CIA may be criticized but are allowed to clean up their own messes as they see fit, the memo sent shudders through the establishment for a simple reason: it came from within. If Rowley's account is accurate--and colleagues say she's not one for shading the truth--her letter amounts to a colossal indictment of our chief law-enforcement agency's neglect in the face of the biggest terrorist operation ever mounted on U.S. soil. It raises serious doubts about whether...
...work: intimidating journalists, talking down his team's chances, pepping up in-form players by dropping them from the team - still buying room for maneuver and maintaining control. At Manchester United, Ferguson has found a layer of charm and some outside interests to relax into, but Crick's account of his early stewardship of lowlier Scottish teams is a running riot of flying teacups, brawls and spats over petty cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems...
...experts, French authorities foiled a plot by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group to fly an airliner into the Eiffel Tower. "Since 1994," says a French investigator into al-Qaeda cases, "we should all have been viewing kamikaze acts as a possibility for all terrorist hijackings." But if Rice's account is accurate, nobody significant in the Bush Administration...
...Washington. On Saturday Arlen Specter, a veteran Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called FBI director Robert Mueller and urged him to turn over the memo. When Mueller refused, Specter snapped, "Congress gave you a 10-year term and expects a response from you," according to a reliable account. "The people are entitled to an explanation." Specter then called committee chairman Patrick Leahy at his farm in Vermont, and the two men agreed to summon Mueller--and the memo--to Capitol Hill this week and, if he refuses, hit him with a Senate subpoena. If the White House tries...
...Instead of inspiring confidence, his behavior caused a bank run. Startled depositors yanked their accounts, and Philippine staffers?not inclined to swallow the weird, cultish rituals Ogami's officers tried to impose?quit in droves. Unitrust was forced to close its doors this January. With the bank in receivership, thousands of remaining depositors are unable to access their funds. "I'm about to lose hope," says one, whose account held all his earnings from years of labor abroad. Rafael Buenaventura, governor of the Philippines central bank, concedes, "This is a clear case of our weak regulatory environment...