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...Tuesday and Thursday" drops us in on Paul Chloe, a thirtyish civil-servant during his mid-week days off. He's a jerk. Arrogant and acerbic, he snaps at his wife and puts down his friends. But he seems more desperate than angry. His moral compass has gone haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where...
...body on the other end of the seesaw is Mishra, a 70-year-old career civil servant and diplomat, who functions as the equivalent of a White House chief of staff. The fact that Mishra has survived countless calls for his removal?he's accused of wielding influence beyond his position?is testament to his pivotal role, diplomats say. Mishra is considered to be the brains behind the peace overtures of the past. His influence with Vajpayee these days waxes when the two men get away from the capital and the rest of the BJP. At a regional security conference...
...first FAA chief in history to serve a five-year term. Even worse for the country's air-safety system, the FAA still has not been able to fill the job of chief operating officer, created by Congress in 2000. And the agency's top career civil servant, Monte Belger, now acting deputy administrator, is calling it quits on July...
...blow the whistle on the terrible failings of her beloved FBI. "She is the kind of person who always does what is right when nobody's watching," says one friend. "That is why she came out." American life seems uniquely capable of producing stories like hers--a loyal public servant who clings to her belief in the system until a betrayal of that faith makes it impossible to stay silent. Rowley, unable to sleep at 3 a.m. one night in early May, drove to the office and wrote the first draft of a memo. She spent a week fine-tuning...
...language, the dapper attire, even expressions of regret for making "mistakes"--all are part of an effort by Dostum, a onetime soldier of fortune whose name is a byword for a decade of warlord power, to resell himself to his compatriots and the world as a democratic politician and servant of the people in a kinder, gentler Afghanistan. Whether he and other warlords succeed in this improbable transformation is even more important to Afghanistan's future stability than is the fate of al-Qaeda remnants hiding out in the Pakistani borderlands. While the Bush Administration continues to make chasing America...