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...special U.S. Attorney, giving him the power to prosecute weapons-for-drugs cases in federal court--a statute that doesn't exist on Virginia state books--where convictions carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison. Says Tazewell sheriff's captain Clarence Tatum: "If we could get rid of Oxy and all the related drugs, we'd wipe out 75% of the crime in this county...
...This year I really want to get rid of these traditional issues, for example [24-hour] libraries. If you look at campaigns for the past ten years everybody’s said it,” Glazer says, tucking his trademark long locks behind his ears...
...don’t want to get rid of it because I’ve had it for so long and I think it’s really funny,” Glazer says, adding that he might change it to be more professional. “My inbox is always full because I save certain messages and it just keeps filling...
...actor, and I manage Hollywood." His goal: to concentrate on products, not process, which has choked innovation at Sony. "We have to find a way to streamline the place," he says, "to focus on engineers and products and get out of the way." But he also has to rid the company of its infamous politics and divisional fiefdoms, where content units have clashed spectacularly with hardware departments over compatibility, copyright and distribution issues. "You have to break down the silo walls that helped iTunes clean our clock," he says. "You've got to collect people who buy into change...
...still very good," says Carell, who has two young children with his wife, fellow Daily Show and Second City alumnus Nancy Walls. "In the year and a half since I left, it's gone through the roof and won all kinds of accolades. I guess they needed to get rid of some dead weight." But while other Daily Show correspondents have been able to create amusing iterations of the soulless newscaster, Carell has been able to distill that character down to its most elemental trait--the faked confidence we all use to get by. It may be the perfect comedic...