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...agreed to talk to TIME about the center's operation. While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security. Critics complain that the agency failed to piece together information that might have led the FBI to the Sept. 11 plotters. "The failure of the intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...shouldered at 61, Malone, who has lifted weights since high school, is physically and intellectually intimidating, with a flypaper memory and an ability to perform complex calculations in his head. One person who has sat across the bargaining table from him says he has a "frictionless mind." Other negotiators complain that Malone has an annoying penchant for tweaking the deal to his advantage just as closure seems at hand. When he finally decided to sell his crown jewel to AT&T for $37 billion in stock in 1998, many competitors and partners alike wanted to wish him good riddance...
When Europeans complain about American cultural imperialism, what they usually have in mind is McDonald's taking business from the local boulangerie or U.S. moguls vying to wire the Continent for cable TV. But an American entertainment executive named Sam Davis has a subtler method of infiltration: he introduced Germany to the made-for-TV movie nine years ago and liked the place so much, he decided to stay...
...agreed to talk to TIME about the center's operation. While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security. Critics complain that the agency failed to piece together information that might have led the FBI to the Sept. 11 plotters. "The failure of the intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman...
...Harbour Plaza, some guests don't go with the flow. Fish fanatics complain the hotel is violating sea-life rights. "One guest faxed us about the cruelty of keeping fish in captivity," says Schreiber. Others take it all too personally. One Hong Kong visitor who checked in solo but was actually staying with his wife called the front desk in a rage. "Does the hotel think I need a fish because I can't talk to my wife?" he barked. "How did you know we were having marital problems...