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...pool and read a book. Things are looking up: I get to wear a white T-shirt so I don’t freeze to death and I have the greatest Civil War novel, The Killer Angels, to read. I pray that I don’t screw up. I don’t know how I could really, but I still have that nagging fear of messing up the one take which would have been perfect. “Take 18. Background. Action.” At least I’m not in the water...
...great man is just biding his time. "He's playing for the long term," says a close friend. "There is a real danger in underestimating Colin. In time this will all be taken care of." A longtime former military pal says, "His idea is to wait until the conservatives screw up, and then he'll come in and take over." Yet another old friend notes, "No one has screw-you rights like he does." As Powell told TIME, "I can eat bullets. I can be nasty if I have to be." He is still an independent power; Bush...
...high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices are also assimilating that other cardinal virtue in a watchmaker's character: patience...
...know. Everyone will be watching to see what kind of changes he would make, but it?s hard to think of how he could provide a quick, flashy remedy for the Bureau?s most publicized problems. It?s hard to address the screw-up with McVeigh, for example, on any immediate level, since that was a problem involving most field offices as well as Bureau headquarters...
...Pickard's open manner may solve one of the bureau's worst management problems. Many agents respected Freeh for his integrity, but his penchant for killing messengers and turning minor screw-ups into felonies earned him the nickname, "The Queen of Hearts" Not surprisingly, bad news sometimes didn't get to the Director until it had festered to really rotten. Case in point: the McVeigh mess, which began to crop up last January but which was kept from Freeh until it was leaking to reporters...