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...hoped to spend a career at the CIA, but a serious staph infection in 1970 forced him to quit fieldwork, and he left the agency for a new life in Florida that eventually led him to politics and the House of Representatives. Three decades later, the former secret agent is poised to return to the clandestine world, now that President George W. Bush has nominated Goss as director of Central Intelligence...
...counterterrorism expertise. Despite his thin qualifications, he received a $110,000 salary. When reporters started asking questions, McGreevey refused to order a full vetting of Cipel and wouldn't make him available for interviews. After it was revealed that Cipel couldn't even obtain federal clearance to see top-secret data because he is a foreigner, he left the homeland-security post for an undefined "special counsel" job in McGreevey's office. He quit state government altogether in August...
...that what brought it all down? Many gay politicians serve openly today, from Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe of Arizona to Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rives Kistler. And countless straight politicians could tell McGreevey that a career can perish even when your secret passions are heterosexual. Just ask former Governor Paul Patton of Kentucky, who had to abandon plans for a 2004 Senate race after he was accused of misusing his office to help a woman with whom he had had an affair. Or Jack Ryan, the millionaire who was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois this year until...
...started acting at 7. At 30, you still haven't been arrested. What's your secret...
...known experience in the oil business. Rosneft would not comment on the appointment. But the company is poised to snap up some or all of the pieces of Yukos at the state-run sale expected to follow Yukos' demise. "The appointment of Putin's closest and most secretive lieutenant as head of Rosneft is a sign that Putin has set out to take over the Russian oil industry," charges Economist Mikhail Delyagin, a former top aide to President Boris Yeltsin, now director of the Institute of Modernization, a Moscow-based think tank. Many oil magnates, officials and analysts believe...