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When Bob Mueller took over the Justice Department's criminal division in 1990, his subordinates teased him about his patrician manner and the pressed jeans that were his idea of a dress-down Saturday in the office. His high-Wasp name, Robert Swan Mueller III, led them to call him Bobby Three Sticks...
...Pickard's open manner may solve one of the bureau's worst management problems. Many agents respected Freeh for his integrity, but his penchant for killing messengers and turning minor screw-ups into felonies earned him the nickname, "The Queen of Hearts" Not surprisingly, bad news sometimes didn't get to the Director until it had festered to really rotten. Case in point: the McVeigh mess, which began to crop up last January but which was kept from Freeh until it was leaking to reporters...
...term. There are still places in the structure of the Administration that haven't been filled. So it's very difficult to judge. They have a different style, which is normal. But look at the Middle East, look at the Balkans. They may not be engaged in the same manner, but there's no question that they will continue to be engaged. Even if they didn't want to, they'd have...
Shanower may not create the poetry of "The Iliad" but he tells a story in a straightforward, clean manner that will keep you reading through one sitting. To do it he gives the characters personalities: Paris as adolescent dumbbell, Helen as the ultimate trophy wife who remains stately even while succumbing to an absurd love, and Agamemnon, the opportunist who seeks to consolidate his power. Thus, inevitable historical events seem born out of human mistakes and desires. Throw in some PG-13 sex scenes and a few animal sacrifices, and you've got a good book...
...felt disappointment that Israel had made overtures for peace, and they had been utterly rejected," Brody says of the Camp David process last summer. "So we felt it was very important to have a really powerful and thoughtful rally to show our support for Israel in a public manner...