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...formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and sealing it off, big shot officers with visored caps and polished boots tramping from compartment to compartment, demanding visas, passports, papers, documents. They are stamping, stamping, stamping with boots and rubber stamps. Then there is the waiting while the official party repeats this process in each and every compartment in each and every wagon for fifteen cars down the line. And the train then lurches forward a few kilometers, and then there is another stop when the officers from the nation just across the border from the first stop repeat the process...
...National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible. With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush Administration in 1992-93. Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by his team for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley...
...boots on the ground"--U.S. special-ops forces deployed inside Afghanistan on a search-and-destroy mission targeting bin Laden. Cohen said he would look at the idea, but he and General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were dead set against it. They feared a repeat of Desert One, the 1980 fiasco in which special-ops commandos crashed in Iran during an abortive mission to rescue American hostages...
...Stake Their Claim The relationship between fund manager and client continues to take a litigious turn. Last week, the investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. settled a dispute with the British supermarket group J. Sainsbury over alleged mismanagement of Sainsbury's pension fund. The undisclosed settlement helped Merrill avoid a repeat of its court battle last year with Anglo-Dutch concern Unilever, also over pension fund mismanagement. In that case, Unilever had alleged that returns on its pension fund had trailed the market by an amount larger than was permitted under the terms of its contract with Mercury Asset Management, which...
...family stands just inches away from him as he unnecessarily reads the exhibition sign aloud word-for-word. The family then peers through the metal gate, watches us working for a while, quickly grows bored and leaves, making way for the next family to repeat the process...