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...casualties along the way. The New York Post has it that one is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who after getting jilted at the altar by John Breaux on a Senate compromise bill started telling reporters that the recovery was imminent anyway. When your job is to sell your boss' agenda to the Hill, the boss doesn't take it to kindly when he demands a bill by Thanksgiving and then has to demand it again by Christmas...
...each other in court. Last week Diana Brooks, Sotheby's elegant, blond ex-president, who was once considered the most powerful woman in the art world, did not disappoint. Brooks, who pleaded guilty last year to antitrust conspiracy and agreed to testify for the government, charged that her former boss, A. Alfred Taubman, was behind the plan that allegedly bilked patrons out of tens of millions over six years. Among the juicier sound bites: when investigators were closing in and Brooks refused to meet with Taubman without a lawyer present, she testified, Taubman told her, "Just don't act like...
MARRIED. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, 40, Clinton adviser turned ABC pundit, to actress ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH, 36; at a Greek Orthodox church in New York City. Absent among the guests: the groom's former boss, with whom Stephanopoulos fell out after the Monica Lewinsky scandal...
...Just then, Kamen rides up and hands his Segway over to Bezos. As the Amazon boss races madly around the warehouse, hooting and cackling and flapping his arms, someone yells out, "Yo, Jeff, what were you saying about the consumer market?" Whizzing past, Bezos shouts back, "There's definitely at least a consumer market...
...That's why the American targeting of Atef also served to deliver a pointed message to his boss. As American commandos did in northern Afghanistan, U.S. special ops in the south provided Pashtun tribes with advice, ammunition and weapons. But the immediate goal was to divine bin Laden's location with enough precision for the U.S. to deploy its forces?either technological or human, in the air or down into a cave?to deliver the final blow. All week American troops manned checkpoints on the roads running through former Taliban country, seeking clues to bin Laden's coordinates. Special...