Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordered a review of the entire case. But even before it is taken up, top Pentagon civilians are seething at the Army's public relations blunder and the demoralizing impact the handling of the case could have on the troops. "You don't let someone go until the inspector general has finished the investigation," says a senior civilian overseeing Pentagon personnel matters. Says Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon personnel chief: "It was stupid for them to let him out. There's no certainty they can get him back if they decide he needs to be punished." Even a senior Army...
...would have had good reason to dispense quietly with Hale's case, because his alleged offenses made a mockery of the sensitive new job he had been given. The 52-year-old Hale was allowed to pack it up just four months after he became the Army's deputy inspector general. In that post, he oversaw all Army probes into personnel misconduct and was expected to help eradicate sexual abuse in the Army's ranks. "There are two systems of justice in the military, and those who practice in the military justice system are deluding themselves if they say otherwise...
...which is why some relatively minor cases are allowed to proceed (including one involving a Miller Brewing Co. employee who accused a colleague of sexual harassment after he described a randy Seinfeld episode), and why some egregious cases are eventually dismissed (including one involving a Rockwell International Corp. parts inspector who was allegedly groped, fondled and threatened repeatedly by a co-worker...
...artistic director of London's adventurous Donmar Warehouse theater, has staged everything from Shakespeare (Ralph Fiennes in Troilus and Cressida) to Stephen Sondheim (revivals of Company and Assassins). For his U.S. debut Mendes has updated an old show with vibrant theatricality in the way Stephen Daldry turned An Inspector Calls into an expressionist nightmare and Nicholas Hytner gave Carousel a lyrical new coat of paint...
Annan phoned Albright to repeat his assurances and to say that Butler, whom the Iraqis loathe because he will not tolerate their lies and evasions, is still "in charge." Just as important, a professional UNSCOM inspector would head the Special Group team that would actually search for weapons inside the palace compounds. Annan told Albright he had informed the Iraqis that, like it or not, they were "going to have to work with Butler...