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...detail (the mayor of Chicago, a city with three times the population, has 15 guards). When Gary Brown, the deputy chief of police internal affairs, opened an investigation into misconduct by the security team, Kilpatrick fired him, ostensibly because Brown did not get his chief's approval for the probe. --By Jyoti Thottam. Reported by Amanda Bower/New York, Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit and David Thigpen/Chicago
...accept the terms of the May settlement. Said he: "If I had to do it over again . . . the individuals involved would have stood by themselves." Some members of Congress say that Justice's investigation of the case was superficial. Those complaints led the House subcommittee to begin its own probe. Attorney General Edwin Meese has not ruled out the possibility that the inquiry might be reopened by the Justice Department. "Our attention to the case continues," he said last week. "We are keeping our eyes open to any new information...
...what large buildings will look like from the ground, the air or the window of a high-rise across the street. Petroleum engineers can explore graphic versions of geological formations thousands of feet below the ocean floor without drilling. Physicians, manipulating the images produced by CAT scanners, can visually probe the brains of patients without having to perform exploratory surgery. Says Don Greenberg, director of computer graphics at Cornell University: "It's like having a doctor walk on the inside of the skull...
Because of these flaws, Big Dig officials from the Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff firms began to probe the integrity of the rest of the tunnel’s slurry panels. As of the end of March, they found flaws in 58 out of the 1,250 panels that they had examined—only two of which were deemed to have serious defects...
Investigators are going out of their way to emphasize that Buffett is not a target in their expanding probe of the insurance industry. They characterize him as a "valuable asset" and a "productive and cooperative witness." In a statement, Berkshire stressed that Buffett "was not briefed on how the transactions were to be structured or on any improper use or purpose...