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...bought the business--an independent computer-support firm based in Minneapolis, Minn.--from its founder, Robert Stephens, in 2002, after working with Geek behind the scenes for two years. Today there are 7,500 agents spread across all 668 of Best Buy's U.S. stores, led by "chief inspector" Stephens. So-called counterintelligence agents work inside the stores to help befuddled shoppers select their wares, while badge-toting double agents like Tavadia make house calls in branded, black-and-white Volkswagen Beetles. "I'm trying to build an army," Stephens likes to say, "and my goal is complete world domination...
...CH2M HILL, now one of the largest engineering firms in the world, to work on the Milwaukee Water Pollution Abatement Program, a project for the upgrading of sewage-treatment plants and the sewer tunnel system. One of the very first jobs I was put on was as a tunnel inspector. The project was awarded to an Italian contractor. I still remember so vividly to this day when I sat in a preconstruction meeting and the project manager was introducing his inspectors. When he introduced me, the only woman, this older Italian man pointed at me--he wouldn't even look...
...either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA left large portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, kickbacks, and misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The report was written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. His audit cites Bremer for lax accounting (on one payroll, for instance, only 602 of the 8,206 names could be confirmed, with no paper trail for the rest of the cash) and inadequate disclosure (the CPA allowed Iraqi officials to delay reporting the $2.5 billion...
...According to Baluchistan police inspector general Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob, the doctor was awoken in the middle of the night at her residence in the Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. (PPL) compound to find a gun at her head. When she cried for help, says Yaqoob, she was punched in the face. The doctor reported the attack to company managers who, according to Yaqoob, refused to allow her to file a police case. (Three senior PPL officials were arrested and charged on Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful...
...Last Wednesday, Musharraf said he's prepared to negotiate with Bugti and other tribal leaders over a share in these development projects. No deal, says the Nawab?not until the doctor's rapists are brought to justice. Yaqoob, the police inspector general, says the army officers suspected of the rape, who have yet to be detained, will soon submit to a DNA test. But the Nawab suggests an old tribal custom to prove their guilt or innocence. "Our elders say that the accused must walk through fire," he says. "If he is innocent, the flames won't harm...