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...which helps explain why friends and colleagues of Rowley were impressed but not altogether surprised when she put her career on the line last week to blow the whistle on the terrible failings of her beloved FBI. "She is the kind of person who always does what is right when nobody's watching," says one friend. "That is why she came out." American life seems uniquely capable of producing stories like hers--a loyal public servant who clings to her belief in the system until a betrayal of that faith makes it impossible to stay silent. Rowley, unable to sleep...
...likely Mueller will have plenty more accounting to do. He has already been pressed to explain why the FBI did not investigate Moussaoui more aggressively; on May 8, he told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the lead Minnesota case agent "did a terrific job in pushing as hard as we possibly could with Moussaoui. But did we discern that there was a plot that would have led us to Sept. 11? No. Could we have? I doubt it." But in its most searching passage, Rowley's letter lays out the case that the FBI made fateful miscalculations...
...opening pages, Millet writes that "until the idea of this book came to me, I had never really thought about my sexuality very much." While this seems hard to fathom, it may explain why the book, though it boasts more sex acts per page than Lady Chatterley's Lover or Penthouse, feels more like a taxonomy of sexual positions than an erotic romp. --By Michele Orecklin
...first batch of Brava bravers complained of rashes and started a now defunct website called Brav-Argh. (Brava says the rashes have been addressed with a new skin treatment.) A more typical experience seems to be that of Christina Ashe, whose job at Hooters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., may explain why she wore her Brava faithfully for 17 weeks. "If you want that fake Pamela Anderson look, this isn't the right thing," says Ashe, who still wears her Brava occasionally for a short-term boost. "But I'm never going to have surgery, and I got a half...
...correspondent too, all this beauty comes tainted. Listening to Nepalese Maoists explain how they torture and kill at will is all the more troubling when heard in a pastoral idyll. It is difficult to imagine the age-old, sun-drenched rice terraces as the execution grounds where the rebels say they machete their enemies?civil servants, anybody with a job?and shatter their legs over wooden blocks. Sometimes beauty can even seem obscene. No journalist I know ever takes a day off in Afghanistan?partly because there's a terrible guilt, an abhorrence, about enjoying the scenery in such...