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...President's office on issues large and small. Only on Jan. 20 did the Defense Department take charge of postwar operations in the new Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, naming Jay Garner, a retired Army lieutenant general and a friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's, as peace boss. State's top Iraq expert, Ryan Crocker, tapped to go to Baghdad as ambassador, may not take the job because so much postwar power would reside at Defense...
That leaves al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri still at large, if not at liberty. Mohammed is a prize catch because he was still very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command...
RESIGNED. LLOYD WARD, 53, embattled CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee, the fourth boss to step down in four years; seven weeks after being stripped of his $184,800 bonus for trying to steer Olympic business to a company with ties to his brother; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Five other top officials had previously resigned in protest over the Committee's handling of the issue...
...Well, when I first started working here, there was this other guy—let’s just call him Mr. Latte—and basically, any hot girl that walked in here got a free drink. Then he got fired, and the boss cracked down on us. So now only a select few get free drinks. But Mr. Latte...man...he was a rock star...
...Still, some observers say Wen's low-key consensus-building approach may ultimately be the best way to finish what his boss started. "Whether he comes off as charismatic really doesn't matter," says a Western businessman. China has accomplished much of the necessary broad-brush reforms and now needs to do the detail work?a task for which Wen is well suited...