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...Their staffs have been merged; Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, has all but disappeared into Bush's National Security Council. Rare moments carved out for vice-presidential business don't last long. A scheduling meeting last week had just got under way when the phone rang. "I'll be there right away, Sir," said Cheney, leaving for the Oval Office without a word. "What are we, chopped liver?" joked one of his abandoned aides. When Bush rewrote a portion of his Sept. 20 address to Congress, re-framing the Administration's position on Osama bin Laden...
...February, with Sulzer Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases...
...Their staffs have been merged; Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, has all but disappeared into Bush's National Security Council. Rare moments carved out for vice-presidential business don't last long. A scheduling meeting last week had just got under way when the phone rang. "I'll be there right away, Sir," said Cheney, leaving for the Oval Office without a word. "What are we, chopped liver?" joked one of his abandoned aides. When Bush rewrote a portion of his Sept. 20 address to Congress, re-framing the Administration's position on Osama bin Laden...
...will it be through the kind of uplifting wrap-ups that "The West Wing" specializes in, which rang a little more hollow than usual last night. At the end of the episode, after the White House is declared safe, Josh Lyman tells the students to go back, live their lives, pursue their dreams and be kids, without letting fear of terrorism dominate their existence...
Some of the men seemed to use the same Visa card, on which they rang up substantial charges, and gave the same Mail Boxes Etc. addresses, especially toward the last days of their lives. On attack day, four to seven cross-country tickets were billed to the same card. The same card number showed up on the rental contract for a car the hijackers left at Logan Airport and for a Boston hotel room some slept in. The pile of credit-card receipts, rental-car contracts, hotel bills and airline tickets tracks their movements as they eventually made their...