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...there was nothing effete about Mueller, a decorated Marine, who handled cases ranging from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. He smashed through bureaucratic obstacles so enthusiastically that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization...
...site for $1 per acre per year, or $160--about the price of an average downtown parking spot. To the Anschutz Exploration Corp. of Denver, which holds a permit to drill for oil there, the canyon is designated as Federal Lease MTM-74615. Should the company's wells pan out, the canyon could be worth millions. Finally, to the numerous Native American tribes that revere the canyons' ancient rock drawings of warriors, shields and animals, the place is known as the Valley of the Chiefs. To the tribes, the spot is holy and has no price...
...across Asia, risk awareness is thin, and no pan-Asian transport body exists to call for precautionary measures, as the European Commission did in January. During the Haj season when tens of thousands go to Mecca, Pakistan International Airways routinely refits aircraft to shoehorn in as many seats as possible. In China, Li Ru, spokeswoman for Air China, puts her faith in passenger size. "We are shorter and smaller than Westerners, so we're less uncomfortable in airplane seats," she says. For those airlines that are taking action, the mood is aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association...
...revenues isn't something you want to see just after you got Congress to pass a $1.3 trillion tax cut. During the budget debate, Democrats howled loud and long that the budget surplus projections W. was using to justify his tax cut were flaky. The tax revenues wouldn't pan out, particularly if the economy soured, they argued. With the economy now worsening and the revenue projections dropping, Democrats plan to remind the White House of this "all the time," says a senior aide with the House Democratic leadership. "It's a big problem for Republicans...
...nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...