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...Canadian who follows the American political scene closely, I was shocked and dismayed by your President's decision to meddle in the Scooter Libby case. What a sorry example for American youth. It is apparently O.K. to lie to cover your backside and that of your boss. Bush's intervention in the Libby case is not only an insult to your judicial system, but it is also an abuse of Executive power. Barry Mayhew, VICTORIA, B.C., CANADA...
...Hoeft, who covers technology stocks at Dodge & Cox and sits on the domestic-equities committee, recalls a very different experience. "Our job inside the firm got easier," he says. "We trimmed as time went on. We just couldn't rationalize the expectations." No finger pointing. No pressure from the boss. And at the end of the day, no camel either...
...Blair, but smelled increasingly of sulfur. "It's the job of a press secretary to be a lightning conductor," says Sir Christopher Meyer, who headed Downing Street press operations under Major and later served as Britain's ambassador to Washington from 1997-2003, a time when Campbell and his boss were frequent White House visitors. Campbell is a kind of Zelig, without the character's self-effacement, present at the key events of the past decade, especially its international convulsions. That's why his diaries will be pored over on both sides of the Atlantic. His friendship with President Clinton...
...Proenza was reprimanded last month by his immediate boss at the National Weather Service, part of the NOAA, which launched QuickSat. The Weather Service's director, Mary Glickin, chided Proenza in a letter for causing "unnecessary confusion about NOAA's ability to accurately predict tropical storms." Undaunted, Proenza said "my bosses are the American people," and insisted that "I want to make sure that my assessment of these problems that we're facing was out there so they would know. We are the most vulnerable nation on earth to hurricanes...
...with Presidents and Premiers, royals and rock stars, lawmen and faith leaders, press barons and members of the public. It's to that last category, "people outside the Westminster bubble," he tells TIME, that the author is appealing, over the heads of a media both he and his former boss have come to regard as irredeemably hostile...