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When TIME's Nation section first began working on this week's cover story, which examines the crisis in liability Insurance, it intended to focus on America's courts. Says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who oversaw the project: "We were planning to look at the sweepstakes-size jury awards that were being handed out in personal-injury cases. But we kept running into horror stories about manufacturers, doctors, lawyers, peace marchers, transit systems, municipal beaches, even whole towns that were having trouble getting insurance. So we decided to concentrate on the insurance crisis and look at all the causes, including...
...Saudi office comprised a secretary and two agents--Wilfred Rattigan and his lieutenant, Egyptian-American Gamal Abdel-Hafiz. They also oversaw six nearby countries. The FBI sent reinforcements within two weeks of 9/11, but it appears that the bureau's team never got on top of the thousands of leads flowing in from the U.S. and Saudi governments. In a June 6 letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, the Senate Judiciary Committee renewed a request for information about allegations that the FBI's Riyadh office was "delinquent in pursuing thousands of leads" related to 9/11...
...efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...
Whatever the level of artistry or popular appeal, the documentary is no longer ashamed. "When Hoop Dreams came out in 1994," recalls director Steve James, "it hid the fact that it was a documentary." Sheila Nevins, who oversaw the excellent America Undercover series for HBO, concurs. "When we started," she says, "we used to try to not call our programs documentaries for fear the public would run away from it. Now we can't wait...
...Nathans was openly opposed to many of the early recommendations of the curricular review, particularly the push towards Yale-style housing. At the helm of the FDO for over a decade, Nathans led an institution that held a large degree of autonomy within the College and oversaw both residential and advising aspects of freshman life...