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...Still, many critics of the Bush Administration and Congress argue that the entire FISA needs to be rewritten to handle threats posed by the kind of low-lying, educated actors who perpetrated 9/11, rather than trying to tack provisions onto the existing law to account for the new danger. That is also the position of New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson, the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the eavesdropping at the National Security Agency. Wilson has been engaged in lengthy negotiations with the White House and other members of Congress over access to details of the program in advance...
...been in evidence.”LEADERSHIP 101Vagt’s favorite memory of Bok is from his tenure as law school dean. Agitated students threatened to take over a room where the faculty was scheduled to have a meeting. Instead of reacting with force, Bok took a surprising tack; he declared an open meeting and invited the students to join in the discussion, serving them coffee and donuts. Professor Emeritus Richard A. Musgrave says Bok saw himself as “an instrument of serving the community effectively, being trustworthy, and really appealing to everybody.”However...
That promise is too distant for the very present danger Alvin Chalmers faces. His pleading with detectives Conaway and Bowden in the car on the way to central booking has fallen on deaf ears, so Chalmers takes a new tack, rehearsing what he will probably say on the stand. "I was high when it happened," he says over and over. "I don't remember anything...
...best known as a summer playground for Manhattan millionaires. But this night, the people who service the lavish Hamptons lifestyle were throwing their own party. They caravanned from a nearby church, little girls in frilly dresses and pomaded boys in squeaky shoes, shepherded by their parents--the roofers who tack gray slate to colonial homes, the maids who scrub toilets and dust Swarovski stemware, and the gardeners who feed the Hamptons' endless appetite for formal English gardens and straight hedgerows...
...guaranteed mediocrity. "We think you can do better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more, sales commissions are the one thing investors loathe, and American Funds dishes out aplenty. Its 29 funds have low expenses but are distributed through brokers who tack on up to 5.75%--anathema to any cost-conscious investor and a sure way to be dissed by the press...