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...wasn't ready -- at least not last spring, when the city exploded just hours after a jury found four police officers not guilty in the beating of motorist Rodney King. In a report titled "The City in Crisis," an investigative team led by former fbi and cia Director William Webster found there was an absence of any real and workable plan to respond aggressively to the crisis. While the report assigned blame to various members of city government, the lion's share of criticism was leveled against Gates for misleading other city officials into believing an adequate response plan...
Former CIA Director William Webster believes that most agency staff members have learned the lessons of the Iran-contra debacle, and is against retrying George on practical grounds. If punishment is required, he argues, Clair George has already suffered profoundly. If it's a warning to other CIA officials that is needed, the messa
...Wilkins was law clerk to SupremeCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall. Subsequently hewas an associate at the Washington trial law firmof Nussbaum, Owen and Webster, specializing incivil litigation...
...truism to say the problem most often begins at home. When parents are not able to transmit the values of achievement, the ever present peer group fills the vacuum. Moniqua Woods, 12, a student at the Webster Academy in Oakland, says it is easy to spot neglected children because they "come to school every day yawning and tired. You know they stayed out late that night." Concurs classmate Mark Martin, also 12: "Some of the kids' parents are on drugs. You go in their house, and you can smell it." Such a homelife can further strengthen the attitude that school...
...Philadelphia silk wholesaler, Myerson made his mark in the 1970s at the venerable New York law firm of Webster & Sheffield. But his craving for power and wealth caused constant friction with partners, many of whom were relieved when Myerson was wooed away in 1984 by Finley, Kumble, an aggressive 700-lawyer firm that became synonymous with '80s-style greed...