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After a fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court, the wheels of justice have stopped grinding--for me, anyway. Last week I testified before the federal grand jury investigating the leak. I did so after I received a specific last-minute waiver from one of my sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "What I Told the Grand Jury" | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

Do earthquakes have precursors? SAFOD should help answer the question. "This is a new window on the earthquake process," says Stephen Hickman, a senior scientist at the USGS in Menlo Park, Calif. SAFOD could also help settle a number of long-simmering disputes. Although the basic cause of earthquakes on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fault Runs Through It | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Dan Devine, that well-named but peculiar fellow whose era fell between Parseghian's and Faust's, won a national championship and two Cotton Bowls. But he lacked the style that this rumpled Cincinnati missionary, with his high-decibel enthusiasm and 174-17-2 prep record, had in spades. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaking Free of the Thunder | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

In the short run, Chung's obsession with quality can be costly. Last year he delayed the launch of a new Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003 he asked senior R&D executive Lee to get rid of an annoying noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyundai Grows Up | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

Crazy as all this sounds--we're talking GM here, the world's largest automaker--Kerkorian practically wrote the how-to book on such tactics. In the late '70s he loaded up on shares of Columbia Pictures, then turned into such a litigious nightmare that Columbia bought his stake for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dealmaker Rides Again | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

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