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MINNESOTA Zacarias Moussaoui was detained in August 2001 after arousing suspicion at a flight school. A local FBI agent says an HQ "roadblock" thwarted a pre-Sept. 11 investigation...
...welcoming reception in November, Harvard’s new Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone offered a new reason for optimism when he assured a crowd of local officials that he would improve Harvard’s transparency, long a major roadblock to earning the community’s trust. January brought more potential for progress, with newly-elected Mayor Michael A. Sullivan vowing to make town-gown relations a major priority of his term. The city council’s creation of the Committee on University Relations that same month represented fruitful effort toward...
...which doesn't need congressional approval, "environmentally unacceptable." Aware that such a harsh verdict could delay the project indefinitely, Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles, a former energy lobbyist, asked the EPA to reconsider. The agency's final evaluation is expected this week. But there is another roadblock: the Interior Department's own board of appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been properly studied. Interior officials tell TIME that the lease problem is "surmountable" and the objections are "resolvable." If so, Bush...
Zoellick emerged as the meeting?s savior after shepherding the last stage of the talks when many thought everything would unravel. He had already cleared a huge roadblock earlier on when he agreed to allow poor countries to waive the usual patent rules for life-saving medicines, facing down the powerful U.S. pharmaceutical industry. His initial pro-drug-company position was undercut when the U.S. considered breaking the Cipro patent during the recent anthrax scare...
...Forget Kandahar. After the roadblock, they herded us off to a high-walled compound in a place called Spin Boldak. Aside from one foray to a refugee camp whipped by dust storms, they've kept us inside this compound for two days now. The only diversion is watching our Taliban guards tossing stones at the hundreds of Afghans perched on the wall, fascinated by our high-tech equipment and foreign female reporters who aren't hidden in a burqa, an outfit which turns a woman into a pup tent with feet...