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...most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody was in a rut. How many more f______ [Mulder and Scully] episodes can you write...
Indeed, Yemen has made little progress in cracking down on terrorist cells working within its borders. One of America's chief nemeses, Osama bin Laden, has ancestral roots there and boasts a following. Earlier this year, a cabal of 28 suspected Bin Laden loyalists who met initially in Yemen was indicted by Jordan for plotting New Year's attacks on American and Israeli tourists. The country has also become a crossroads for veterans of the war in Afghanistan, some of whom later made their way to conflicts in Bosnia and Chechnya...
Critics of trial lawyers say Scruggs and a cabal of his colleagues are using litigation to hijack hot-button social issues that should be resolved in Congress and the state legislatures. "Trial lawyers are an unelected fourth branch of government," fumes Walter Olson, an author and trial-lawyer foe. Corporate executives complain that the cost of fighting lawsuits, let alone losing them, drives up prices of products ranging from ladders to automobiles and holds down wages and job creation and profits. Adding to the outrage: many plaintiffs' lawyers are getting very rich. The tobacco-settlement legal fees--to be shared...
...Redmond said she also felt a conservative "cabal" dominated the council. According to Redmond, the chair and vice chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC)--John Paul Rollert '00 and Michael D. Shumsky '00--wielded too much influence over Seton and the council...
...public of positions: President of all Russia. He is about to inherit constitutional powers akin to a Czar's in what is called an election but amounts to a coronation. But make no mistake: this was not a fair fight. Putin was handpicked for this handover by a tiny cabal in the Kremlin, little different from the ways of the old Soviet Central Committee. Boris Yeltsin and his cronies needed a successor loyal enough to give them the guarantee they craved of immunity from prosecution and strong enough to make it stick. It could have been anyone. Putin happened...