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...company's wireless division. Investigators are interested in that link and the possibility that Weill sought Grubman's upgrade to win favor with AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong, who sits on Citi's board. In an e-mail , Grubman said that Weill needed the support of Armstrong to "nuke" Weill's then co-CEO John Reed and gain full control of the company. Says Weill: "I would never attempt to manipulate a board member's vote...
Everyone who works at the Detroit crossings knows that just one lapse could let a crate of AK-47s or Semtex, a cache of anthrax spores or nerve gas, even a dirty bomb or a "nuke-in-the-box"--a stolen nuclear warhead--into the American heartland. "We don't even talk about what happens if something gets through," says Anderson. "Every day, we say we're going out there and stop everything." It's a far more serious business than when he signed on as a customs inspector in 1971, and his employment interview consisted of two questions...
...assumption has been that forces who would build a dirty nuke would do so because it's far, far easier than to build a nuclear bomb. It's unlikely to kill 10,000 people, but any bomb that killed people and set off Geiger counters would terrify a whole city. It's ultimately a pure terror weapon...
...Zealand sailors are particularly incensed because the America's Cup village in Auckland, where the competition is based, is just meters away from where French secret agents blew up Greenpeace's protest ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. When Le D?fi tried to launch its new boat recently, anti-nuke activists in inflatables crowded the port at Lorient, Brittany and a Greenpeace dinghy hit the French yacht, damaging its hull. In best America's Cup tradition, Le D?fi threatened to sue. "This was a deliberate act of aggression," said syndicate head Xavier de Lesquen. "The team has been endlessly insulted...
...critics will laugh, but in an era when national security requires that we pretend our President is a sage who would never say nuke-yoo-ler, we could use a national leader we're allowed to laugh at. And when you're running your book club and reaping the profits from B Magazine, you'll be laughing back. --By James Poniewozik