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...hoisted into the ovens. Women who have been employed to mourn for the deceased?a common practice in Taiwan?do so halfheartedly, whimpering rather than weeping. The funeral cloth is ragged, flowers are wilted, the hearses old and decrepit. "The level of service here is disgraceful," says Deng Wen-lung, a university lecturer in life and death studies who has accompanied a visitor to the scene. "Taiwanese have to be taught they can demand something better...
...classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose if he did." He was the kind of student whose academic reputation preceded him wherever he went: he was first in his class in elementary school, middle school and high school. His studiousness and scholastic...
...mole in its ranks right up until they tripped over Russian spy Robert Hanssen, an agent for 25 years. Last month the bureau announced a mediation agreement with African-American agents in a long-running class action charging bias in promotions. Last year there was the relentless pursuit of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who spent nine months in jail after an immense FBI mole hunt, only to be released by a judge who said his imprisonment had "embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen of it." To say nothing of Richard Jewell...
...line is all the harder when each field office is its own fiefdom. Individual agents have tremendous autonomy; they depend so much on their secret informants that they resist sharing information up and down the food chain. That need-to-know mentality has suffused the whole bureau; agents investigating Wen Ho Lee didn't even know that he and his wife had been paid FBI informants a few years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over Janet Reno's hands...
...mind of FBI Director Louis Freeh. But it sure is interesting to speculate. This is a man, after all, who has spent his entire career as a federal employee, who ran the federal government?s lumbering law-enforcement bureau through some of its toughest times - the minefields of Waco, Wen Ho Lee and interminable Clinton scandals - with a grace many consider admirable...