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...Bush could have avoided a lot of headaches if he had nominated John Ashcroft to be Secretary of Agriculture. Because the Attorney General plays such a critical role in any Administration, Ashcroft's opponents felt they could not sit still. As the nation's top lawyer and top cop, the Attorney General oversees an enormous network of law-enforcement officers and attorneys, supervising the FBI, the INS, the DEA, the Witness Protection Program and the U.S. Marshals. As chief attorney, he prosecutes everything from tax fraud to money laundering to illegal gun sales to patent violations...
...There's a wonderful conspiracy that we will all pretend that Teller never talks. I was once in Times Square, and a cop stuck out his nightstick, hit me right in the chest and said, "Name?" And I said, "Teller." He nudged his partner and said, "See. I told you I could make him talk...
...research his role in Traffic, he spent time with Mexican policemen. "To be a cop in Mexico is very difficult," he says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...
...Toro appreciates the shadings of ethical ambiguity in his Traffic cop. "You don't know if he's going to be good or bad. But you understand he has to survive. I always looked at the guy as a good guy. I do that for every character I play, even a psychopath...
...record 49% of Americans own stock. This isn't play money. It's a cop-out to blame analysts if you were so caught up in the money chase that you failed to recognize their tortured logic and conflicts of interest. You owe it to yourself to understand how things work. Earnings expectations, not earnings, are what matter. Mr. Average gets shares of an IPO not because he's lucky, but because the IPO was deemed too chancy for better clients. When analysts say buy, they mean hold; hold, they mean sell...