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...precise wording of the French letter isn't the issue. The extraordinary thing about Moussaoui's case--like the Phoenix memo--is that it was never brought to the attention of top officials in Washington who were, almost literally, sleepless with worry about an imminent terrorist attack. Nobody in the FBI or CIA ever informed anybody in the White House of Moussaoui's detention. That was unforgivable. "Do you think," says a White House antiterrorism official, "that if Dick Clarke had known the FBI had in custody a foreigner who was learning to fly a plane in midair, he wouldn...
When the electorate starts worrying, the most dangerous thing an incumbent can do is nothing. "Americans want solutions, not rhetoric," House G.O.P. conference chairman J.C. Watts warned Republicans in a July 24 memo. This explains why much of the election-year posturing that gridlocked Congress has evaporated as the national mood has headed south along with the stock market...
There was no shortage of irony as Bronfman helped wrest Vivendi away from chief executive Jean-Marie Messier. After all, like Messier, Bronfman always came across as a bit of a dilettante and star-struck CEO. At Universal he once sent a memo to studio executives saying he expected to have double-digit earnings growth every quarter, a virtual impossibility in such a hit-driven industry...
Soon after worldcom CEO John Sidgmore revealed the most sweeping bookkeeping deception in history, a marked-up copy of his internal memo on the scandal was e-mailed to folks around the telecom industry. Under his predecessor, Sidgmore announced, WorldCom had overstated a key measure of earnings by more than $3.8 billion over five quarters, dating back to January 2001. The company's reported profits, it turned out, were really losses. In his memo to employees explaining America's latest corporate disgrace, Sidgmore wrote last Wednesday, "Our customers can count on WorldCom to meet their communications needs today and tomorrow...
...Messier leaves full of regret. In a farewell memo to Vivendi employees he says he's leaving the company in order to save it, and pleads that his successor be given the time and freedom to implement policies that Messier himself believes he did not have. And, he says, people should feel free to email him. At his America Online address...