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June 20, 2002, 10:15 a.m. A lobbyist to his co-worker Tony Rudy, former chief of staff for Texas Congressman TOM DELAY, on their boss Jack Abramoff presumably agreeing to funnel corporate donations to DeLay via a charity: "I'm sensing shadiness. I'll stop asking. I'll break it up over the various requests to a total of $25K." Rudy replies: "Your senses are good...
...POWELL, 64, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and former Texas banker and fund raiser for George W. Bush; as federal hurricane reconstruction czar; two months after Katrina thrashed the Gulf Coast; in Washington. To critics who questioned Powell's lack of experience in disaster relief, his new boss, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, said hurricane victims deserved his "leadership" and "optimism...
...want to take vacations. You don't want to give them anything to suggest you're different, you can't cut it, you can't perform or that you aren't committed." The "invisible life" she once led outside the office came to light at Sears, where her boss told her he believes her ministry lends her integrity...
...third storyline follows Nick, a forger of famous autographs who plies his trade in a sports memorabilia shop. Not content with merely ripping off customers, he soon finds ways of stealing from his boss, who has ties to organized crime. Eventually Nick crosses paths with Caprice, who works as a waitress and struggles with a self-destructive streak that always seems to lead her to the wrong guys. Meanwhile Phoebe, a teenager from the sticks, arrives at the diner where Caprice works in order to find the owner, her father who left her 15 years earlier. Lastly, and most memorably...
...that he is a man with whom Israel can do business. ''I came to the conclusion that it's in their interest as well as our interest,'' he says. ''It is not based on any feeling of affection or affiliation.'' Arafat is just as sternly pragmatic. ''He is the boss, and without him, the accord will not work. He was my enemy, but he is a man who fulfills his commitments.'' After he grudgingly shook hands with Arafat on the White House lawn, Rabin said, ''Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted...