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Mueller seems to agree. When promoting agents to senior-executive levels, he "is trying to extract some promise as to how long they are willing to stay," says Michael Mason, who runs the administrative side of the FBI. Grassley suggested to TIME that "the FBI needs to appeal to the patriotic spirit of its senior managers." But beyond that, the bureau is offering few tangible perks to make working there more attractive. Nor will the jobs be getting easier--Mason says new recruits should expect to be rotated around the country and the world, even if it means uprooting their...
...interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, Skilling admitted he had considered suicide himself. Petrocelli refused to comment on the status of Lay's case. "It's inappropriate to be thinking or talking about that right now," Petrocelli told TIME. Petrocelli is continuing to work on Skilling's appeal, "to right what was a very unjust verdict," he says. "We were representing innocent...
...constitutional right to participate in his criminal appeal. And since he's no longer alive to help his attorneys prepare, the case will be "extinguished" - as if it never happened, explains Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of the textbook White Collar Crime. "It's as if he was never charged and convicted," says Androphy. "This is the law. There may have been a moral victory for the government, but there's no longer a legal victory...
What's the appeal? By bringing in families on the weekends, some hotels have increased their occupancy rates as much as 10% a year, about 10 times the industry average, reports consultant David Sangree. Room revenue also jumps, because an indoor water park adds as much as $100 to the nightly room rate. At Great Wolf, as at most of the parks, admission is exclusive to hotel guests, a selling point for some customers. "I'd always avoided outdoor water parks, because they're usually so dirty, and I worry about health issues," says Michelle Lappas, who came to Great...
...technology, including the latest in dental implants. "That's what works in Spain," Colman says through a translator. In 2005 Vital Dent was second in Spain only to Burger King in attracting franchise investment, according to Franchisa, an industry consulting firm. And he hopes a similar strategy will appeal to Americans looking for an alternative to the old-fashioned neighborhood dentist. "The United States market offers a great opportunity," says Colman...