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Agents have their reasons for being closemouthed--and not just, as their critics often suspect, so they can hog the credit and hype their conviction numbers. For one thing, agents are bound by stringent rules outlawing disclosure of grand-jury evidence. By late last week Mueller had met in Washington with representatives of local law-enforcement groups. He promised them that all 56 FBI field offices would establish joint terrorism task forces with local law enforcement. Just 35 offices have them now. He proposed allowing several members of local law-enforcement agencies access to the Strategic Information and Operations Center...
...Today he still believes in e-commerce, even though Amazon's shares have plunged. "The only thing that has changed is the hype of the stock market," says the ceo of the 166-year-old German media giant, which owns Random House publishing, the BMG music business and much else...
...hype about anthrax? Because tobacco, bad driving, and virtually all of the other things likely to kill any one of us are boring. Terrorists, on the other hand, make excellent press. They generate amazing amounts of fear. In their current incarnation, terrorists are dark, mostly foreign, and (according to most Americans) believe in the wrong God. People want desperately to look outside themselves for threats to their well being. It is much easier to look outside ourselves for threats, because if we look inside ourselves and see something we don't like, we might have to make deep and fundamental...
...have suggested it was a fiendishly clever idea: hit the media through a means just scary enough to cause panic, but not deadly enough to kill off the messenger. The theory - especially popular among media members themselves, self-loathing as we are - is that the self-absorbed media would hype an attack in its own offices much more loudly than strikes anywhere else...
Ichiro: Most exciting player to watch in baseball. A guy who has actually delivered after all the hype surrounding his signing by the Mariners (9-16 in the Division Series). Some confusion may arise with “MVP,” but that is best understood as Jason Giambi...