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...unprecedented numbers, many driven into early retirement by FBI Director Bob Mueller's energetic, impatient style. In his first six months, Mueller has replaced 80% of the senior headquarters staff, and he's about to name new commanders in nearly a third of the field offices. Latest to depart: the FBI's highest-ranking Hispanic, Ruben Garcia, 50, whom Mueller named just two months ago to be executive assistant director in charge of criminal and cybercrime investigations...
That was a sign that Rogge is determined to depart from the laissez-faire ethics of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch. An even better sign will be an aggressive reform of Olympic judging. But for now it's plain at least that he means to distinguish himself from Samaranch, who winked at controversies such as the bribery scandals that led up to the choice of Salt Lake City as the site of this year's Winter Games and routinely ignored reports of bogus judging. Rogge understands that the value of the Olympic brand is on the line. He was determined...
...players and Milutinovic stayed home. But it's also true that 240 million Chinese television viewers, and probably a few soccer-crazy apparatchiks, never foresaw such a late-game loss of face. China was 1-0 up for just five minutes until Hong Kong leveled , only to then depart totally from script by slaying the mighty dragon 4-3 on penalties. How Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa explains this one might determine if the territory continues to get fresh water and receive flu-ridden poultry or whether crossing into the mainland gets harder...
...general. And after having my share of fun, I will be scared to re-enter what we label “the real world.” And I wonder whether I will look back at Cambridge with the same fondness with which I see Orlando. I will depart with my name on a diploma (to match my old pair of souvenir mouse ears), and though I won’t know the words to our alma mater, I will still remember the words to the songs at every Disney attraction. My children may never rub the foot of John...
...That was a sign that Rogge is determined to depart from the laissez-faire ethics of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch. An even better sign will be an aggressive reform of Olympic judging. But for now it's plain at least that he means to distinguish himself from Samaranch, who winked at controversies such as the bribery scandals that led up to the choice of Salt Lake City as the site of this year's Winter Games and routinely ignored reports of bogus judging. Rogge understands that the value of the Olympic brand is on the line. He was determined...