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...Attorney General, the department remains the only Cabinet-level agency without an appointed leader. The person who is eventually chosen as the new chief of federal law enforcement will be handed a full plate of problems that extend back a decade. Among them: the continuing Iran-contra probe, the scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and lingering questions over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have in recent years...
...action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
...Justice Department has been accused of dubious behavior in its investigation of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, an Italian institution whose Atlanta branch made $4 billion in fraudulent loans to firms owned by or doing business with Iraq. Justice investigators are charged not just with botching their probe into B.N.L.'s transgressions but also with ignoring evidence that B.N.L.'s Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, was not solely responsible for the questionable loans. A 163-page Senate Intelligence Committee report issued last week on the affair suggests, however, that most of the Justice Department lapses were due to "bureaucratic bungling...
When rigorous people with Ph.D.s after their names do that, what they see is not some silly, senseless thing. No, their probe reveals that love rests firmly on the foundations of evolution, biology and chemistry. What seems on the surface to be irrational, intoxicated behavior is in fact part of nature's master strategy -- a vital force that has helped humans survive, thrive and multiply through thousands of years. Says Michael Mills, a psychology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles: "Love is our ancestors whispering in our ears...
Most books that make it to the top of The New York Times bestselling non-fiction list get there either because they probe the private lives of Madonna or the Royal family, claim to have solved the mystery of the Kennedy assassination or--in the best of cases--wrestle with burning contemporary issues such as feminism, the Gulf War or the economy...