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...wealthiest of the country's "oligarchs," who made quick fortunes after the Soviet Union's collapse by acquiring cheap state property; with fraud and tax evasion; by prosecutors in Moscow, after special forces surrounded his plane at an airport in Siberia. The dramatic move, part of an ongoing probe into Yukos, was seen by skeptics as a Kremlin-led effort to keep the tycoon, who has funded opposition parties, out of politics...
...leak case, several of the interviews were conducted by veteran G-man John Eckenrode, the lead FBI official on the investigation. Agents asked interviewees to keep mum about their chats so as not to disclose the government's strategy. Both McClellan and Rove declined to comment on the probe...
...steering reporters away from his conclusions, dismissing his work as shoddy and charging that he got the Niger mission only because his wife worked on proliferation issues at the CIA. It was that last detail--and the added fact that his wife worked undercover--that sparked a federal criminal probe into disclosing a covert officer's name...
...tests try to probe innate abilities, and if achievement tests rate classroom learning, aptitude tests assay something in between--developed abilities. Developed abilities are those nurtured through schoolwork, reading, doing crosswords, soaking up the arts, debating politics, whatever. These aren't inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone...
...York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer is stirring up Wall Street again, investigating the mutual-fund industry for illegal-trading practices. It's the latest high-profile probe by the legal crusader who took on the big investment-bank analysts in 2002 and who, everyone assumes, will run as a Democrat for New York Governor in 2006. Spitzer spoke with TIME's Adi Ignatius about Wall Street, the Yankees and who would play him in the movie...