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...until they worked their way up to Prime Minster Tony Blair's office. By coincidence, Blair was scheduled to be in Japan on July 21 for the Group of Eight economic summit in Okinawa. Blair raised the issue of Lucie's disappearance with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshiro Mori. The high-level contacts brought immediate results. Soon after the G-8 meeting, Tim Blackman says, "I was told by the police that they had suddenly solved all of the technical and legal problems in tracing the phone calls...
...Milwauke Brewers have done wonders with its small market, putting together a dangerous line-up and adding quality starting pitching. Yes, Minnesota has bucked the system, adding high-level pitching to a Triple A line-up. And yes, the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Dodgers have failed in recent years despite shelling out the big bucks, proving that money is not the only factor in determining a World Series Champion...
...search interviewing dozens of faculty members here on campus and the "nation's best minds" around the country. They met with select students from the College and other schools, and reached into many of Harvard's nooks and crannies for ideas. Committee members interviewed the presidents and other high-level administrators of other Ivy League institutions, faculty members at other schools, researchers, government officials, other captains of industry, just about any "wise mind" the committee could find. The committee wanted to know where Harvard's major problems lay, what the new president needed to focus on, and where higher education...
...Ronald Noble: The secretary-general of Interpol, Noble held high-level Treasury Department posts in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. He?s seen as pretty conservative. He?s very highly regarded; he ran the Treasury Department?s investigation into what went wrong at Waco, and it was generally agreed that he did an excellent job with that assignment. His investigation is much more highly regarded than the Justice Department?s investigation. Noble is the only black man who?s been mentioned as a contender for the Freeh?s post...
...wasn't the only one who saw an opportunity and took it. The Chinese military has been feeling sensitive ever since a high-level officer defected to the U.S. last December. Jiang has forced the People's Liberation Army to withdraw from many of its lucrative business enterprises, though he has tried to raise morale by boosting defense spending 18% this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline--something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders--and they resent the fact...