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...secretly to design a plan for a new homeland-security system. Hyped as the most sweeping overhaul of the Federal Government in more than 50 years, the proposal put before Bush was drafted in just over a month. An official describes the clandestine enterprise as "sort of like the Manhattan Project," and paranoia about leaks ran so high that meetings were moved to the secure bunker beneath the White House where senior officials had taken cover on Sept. 11. Bush intended to roll out the plan in July, but disclosures about FBI and CIA lapses ratcheted up the pressure...
Unfortunately for Kozlowski, government watchdogs and prosecutors have started keeping score in much the same way he does. They are looking hard at his and Tyco's finances to determine if the game has been rigged. Kozlowski, 55, resigned last week from the helm of Tyco just before the Manhattan district attorney charged him with evading $1 million in sales taxes on more than $13 million in art, including paintings by Renoir and Monet, that he bought in the past 10 months. Kozlowski pleaded not guilty, and neither he nor his attorney would comment on the charges. "He sounded like...
That source tells TIME that the D.A. and the U.S. Treasury Department are separately probing and exchanging information on firms like Tyco that have slashed their taxes by incorporating in Bermuda and other offshore havens. Last Tuesday Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau journeyed to Washington to dine with David Aufhauser, general counsel of the Treasury Department, where they discussed offshore companies and possible money laundering...
...succeed...Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer...[His] problem is certainly not laziness. Married to his college girlfriend, a former Miss South Dakota, he was NBC's White House correspondent for three years. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Manhattan. He often jogs four miles in Central Park before he leaves for the office at 5 a.m., and recently he has taken on the added job of writing and delivering the news on Today, a chore that used to be handled by Floyd Kalber. Brokaw's drawback rather is something...
Harvard’s pre-Ivy campaign was marked by comebacks. The Crimson overcame halftime deficits against Central Connecticut, Rhode Island, Northeastern and Manhattan. The comebacks, often the result of Peljto or Cserny returning after sitting with foul trouble, became routine by January...