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...searches and wiretaps, working organized-crime cases in New York City and becoming, in 1995, chief counsel in the Minneapolis field office. She won a reputation as a highly disciplined professional, opinionated, principled and supremely devoted to her job. For seven years in the 1990s, she doubled as chief spokeswoman for the Minneapolis office, fending off the media hordes during big cases like the 1999 arrest of St. Paul housewife Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who had been on the lam for two decades. Despite the stress and the risks, Rowley, a suburban mother...
Lieberman's long-ignored proposal for a commission to investigate Sept. 11 became a rallying point for Democrats in the flood of revelations that the FBI had missed clues on terrorism. Within the party, all this seems to be playing well. In Arizona, an early 2004 primary state, Democratic spokeswoman Dianna Jennings says, "There's a sense among party activists that what he's doing on the 9/11 stuff is right on." --By Karen Tumulty
...Sears' online purchases are picked up at the store, and once there, about one-fifth of those shoppers end up making unplanned purchases, according to Sears' research. Sears.com contributes directly or indirectly to about $1 billion of the company's $41 billion in annual sales, according to spokeswoman Ann Woolman...
...Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney, in 1993 "the archdiocese acknowledged that there was reason to believe that sexual abuse had occurred." Blackwell moved from the church residency into the nearby home of his mother, and was made to give up his youth ministry. But after a three-month stint...
...that. Hella Jongerius made a chandelier frock. Georg Baldele created a rectangular "Glitter Box." But the favorite of V&A curator Gareth Williams was Tord Boontje's "Design Blossom," a tree branch strung with lights and crystals. The creations are all one-of-a-kind prototypes, but Clare Kubicki, spokeswoman for Swarovski, says the company hopes that the manufacturers of the chandeliers will put them into production. After the exhibition finishes its tour of New York, Paris and London this year, demand shouldn't be a problem...