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...avoid himself. On the trip from Fox Studios to downtown Hollywood, he is driving straight toward an enormous billboard for Minority Report, his dark and timely new movie directed by Steven Spielberg, opening this week. Stuck in traffic, he gazes up at his famous profile and laughs. "The kids always go, 'There's Dad!'" he says. "I remember seeing a Risky Business billboard on Sunset. That was pretty exciting...
...boss, has been more aggressive than usual, driving the process since early April, when Bush backed off his demand that the Palestinians end all terrorist attacks before political issues could be discussed. But the infighting is growing intense again; the Cheney-Rumsfeld approach minimizes concessions to Palestinians to avoid encouraging further terrorist attacks. For one State official, it amounts to "don't just do something; sit there." If Powell loses this fight, in which he has invested much diplomatic capital with leaders in the region, it will be the biggest blow yet to a Secretary of State who has worn...
...attorney was too incompetent to bring it up during a trial or in appeals could be granted a new trial. Sounds easy enough, but it's going to be a tough case for defense attorneys to make, Belsky says. "If the first lawyer made a conscious, strategic choice to avoid the issue of the client's mental capacity, there will be no retrial. So of course every prosecutor will try to deflect charges of incompetence and uncover strategic plots in the defense's tactics." There will also be some new hearings - and possibly sentences, but no new trials - for those...
...change the rules. Executives get paid well; let them go to the bank and put their home in hock like the rest of us. And end the practice by which executives at Enron and Tyco have sold stock back to the company, rather than on the open market, to avoid legally disclosing the sale for as long as a year--while exhorting others...
...think it was getting things in the wrong order. We were worried about the priesthood instead of the kids. The kids should have been first. Some of the errors in judgment, some of the horrendous mistakes in managing personnel, were done in order to avoid scandal at all costs. Some were done as a result of acting on the information that we had at the time. Some of these fellows who were put back got clean bills of health from the experts who were out there...