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...coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last year, arrived last week to probe the still largely empty offices of the President's Executive Branch for some augury of what the Bush Administration wants...
...steaming response to a decision by DOJ officials to yank the probe from her office and give it to prosecutors in Virginia, U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis said the action was "not only ill-conceived and ill-considered, but is the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted...
...Freeh and Lewis have long battled over how to proceed in the probe of the truck bombing at the military barracks in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and injured dozens more. The case has languished for a host of reasons, including the Saudis' early refusal to allow American law enforcement officials to interview people suspected of having a connection to the incident. Sources in Lewis's camp say some in the FBI pressed for indictments and advocated other aggressive moves, but prosecutors have considered the evidence far too thin. FBI officials counter that the issue was never...
...probe for this essence, officers now pore over transcripts, parse teacher recommendations and consult regularly with high school guidance counselors. Then they gather for closed-door deliberations that range from the celebratory (a budding feminist poet is crowned "the next Anne Sexton") to the snippy ("Her thank-you note to her interviewer looks like a third-grader wrote it"). Rarely, if ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests...
MARY JO WHITE U.S. Attorney--and Clinton appointee--widens criminal probe into pardons...