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...Dollar Dialing Probe Disconnected Janet Reno looks set to hang up on calls for an independent counsel into the White House phone scandal...
...September, federal agents seized documents from the offices of Beaulieu of America, a Dalton, Ga., carpet company run by CARL BOUCKAERT, a key money raiser for the former Governor of Tennessee. Beaulieu, the third largest carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted candidate's 1996 presidential campaign. It was precisely a scheme of that sort that cost one of Bob Dole's moneymen a $1 million fine...
...Police have determined that white paint chips found on the Mercedes came from a Fiat Uno made before 1987, sources close to the probe said Thursday. The painstaking tests are being conducted by the top police crime lab in Paris...
...winter approaches, the probe that fired the imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...
...fret not. "I think we're going to have a wake to celebrate what we've done, rather than mourn," said Richard Cook, Pathfinder's mission manager. Those whiskeys will be well-deserved: the $266 million probe was only supposed to last a month. Instead, it was more than 90 days between touchdown on July 4 and last contact on October...