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...President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which is destined to become better known for the controversy it spawned than the report it issued. Two public-interest groups and the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, are suing the Administration for information about the doings of Cheney's gang. But Cheney and Bush are clutching to each Post-it note, insisting that Vice Presidents (and Presidents) should be allowed to get unvarnished advice without the pesky public or Congress knowing who is giving it. Defending that principle has meant coping with a daily dose of unpleasant stories pointing...
...title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, in addition to roles in more than 70 other films. His drinking landed him in bar brawls and headlines in his midcentury heyday, and eventually sidelined his career. A comeback in the '80s and '90s culminated in his role as a gang leader in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime drama Reservoir Dogs...
...With the demise of the two most potent of the Arellano-Felix brothers, the rich Tijuana "plaza," as the drug smuggling corridor is known, is up for grabs, and there will almost surely be a gang war for control, "I'm sure there will be different groups trying to step up to the plate trying to take over this area," says Hutchinson, "but this gives a window of opportunity for the law to reclaim this territory...
...greater payoff," Powell later wrote in his 1995 autobiography, My American Journey. "Inner-city kids, many from broken homes, found stability and role models in Junior ROTC. They got a taste of discipline, the work ethic, and they experienced pride of membership in something healthier than a gang...
...island of Basilan. As of last weekend, three crew members' bodies had been recovered and seven more were unaccounted for. That this second front in the war on terror has turned costly was to be expected. The U.S. is helping Philippine soldiers stomp out Abu Sayyaf, a kidnap-extortion gang on Basilan holding two Americans and one Filipino hostage. The gang once had ties to al-Qaeda, notably through Ramzi Yousef, who tried destroying the World Trade Center in February 1993 and two years later planned the Manila-based Bojinka Plot to blow 11 airliners out of the sky over...