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...costs or a $100-million-a-year P.R. budget, are challenging Big Tobacco with dozens of low-cost smokes, and black-market cigarettes (including the ones that major companies give away as marketing ploys) are on the rise. Were it not for the relatively hospitable air in Washington - John Ashcroft?s Justice Department is looking to dump the Clinton suit and George W. Bush declined to add another round of excise taxes - the long-predicted death of Big Tobacco (and the concurrent rise of Little Tobacco) might have happened already...
...pedestrian stop and to punish officers who rely on race when deciding whether to stop someone. Thirteen states and hundreds of localities have enacted legislation designed to reduce or at least study racial profiling. Bills are pending in at least 12 other states. Everyone from Attorney General John Ashcroft, long a conservative on race issues, to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, long a liberal, has denounced racial profiling. Declared President Bush in February: "It is wrong, and we must...
...certainly get his share when he steps into the director's office. At least Mueller has good relations with Congress, the White House and Attorney General John Ashcroft, who championed his bid, convincing Bush that Mueller is the right kind of manager. While some press accounts portrayed Bush as hesitant about the choice, aides say the President's consideration of other candidates like former Justice official George Terwilliger was simply a case of diligence, since the FBI director gets a ten-year term. There was little surprise in the West Wing when White House counsel Al Gonzalez quoted the President...
Which is why the other side was hailing the decision just as gleefully. Attorney General John Ashcroft called it a "significant victory" for the Justice Department. Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, predicted that when the case resumes, last week's ruling will spell "serious trouble" for Microsoft. "We've been high-fiving since it came down," he says...
...Thompson says Ashcroft's team was especially impressed by Mueller's extraordinary 1995 decision to abandon a lucrative private practice to take obscure murder cases in DC's hellish Superior Court. "He's not a person who's all that concerned about his ego," says Thompson. "He doesn't need to have a high-profile position to determine his self-worth...