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...other side of the door is a photo of J. Edgar Hoover. Staring at it, Mulder and Scully just shrug, but that's unfair to the FBI's snoop extraordinaire, the vicar of voyeurs, the patron saint of the TV show's belief that under every bed, in every closet or out in a pumpkin patch is something very scary that could bring America to its knees. And even if it doesn't, it's worth tracking down, keeping in a locked drawer. Knowledge is power, and belief in the dark side spurs you to gain that knowledge...
...major difference between his corporate and political lives. ''In the corporate experience, you had more time to think, more time to visit individuals, more time to look around at the organization,'' Regan declares. ''The problems are brought to you here. I miss my ability to, it's not quite snoop, but to look around rather than to have it fed to you through others all the time.'' If the day ever comes when he talks to students of Government about running the White House, Regan will hammer the point that too much attention is paid to theories of management...
...SNOOP DOGG releases country-music song titled My Medicine. Sipping on moonshine and juice...
...March and its subsequent decision to extend credit to other investment banks over which it has no regulatory say have been major prods to discussion. Both House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson have since suggested that the Fed be given power to snoop around such institutions in search of market-endangering risks. Frank and presidential candidate Barack Obama have also talked of replacing the hodgepodge of federal and state regulatory agencies with a simpler and less loophole-ridden structure--and on March 31, Paulson issued a long-term plan to do just that...
...important but lesser known presence in hip-hop. Reeves would have done well to integrate them in his argument that rap is the new black power movement, but they unfortunately go unmentioned. Reeves also has a tendency overstretch his intellectual analysis of his subject. For example, Reeves says that Snoop Dogg’s obscenely misogynistic “Ain’t No Fun” “offers its acidic views towards women as a theme for merriment and building male camaraderie” when the song’s lyrics talk simply about running train. Moreover...