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...military-intelligence officer told me last summer about a leader of the Iraqi insurgency who lived in Damascus. "We know his address. We know his phone number," the officer said. "Then why don't we just take him out?" I asked. "Well, that's not the sort of thing we do very well," the officer replied. "We have enough trouble keeping track of his whereabouts." When I wondered if I'd been watching too many spy movies, the officer smiled gently and said, "Probably...
...YOUR PREVIOUS OLYMPICS, IN 2002, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH SAT NEXT TO YOU DURING THE OPENING CEREMONIES. WAS THAT A TOTAL SURPRISE? I knew he was going to be sitting there because the Secret Service was planning a space for him. So I called my mom on my cell phone, and she didn't believe me. So when he was sitting next to me, I thought I'd better call her back. I asked him to say hi to my mom to prove he was there, and he was really great and nice and talked to her for a couple...
...take long before an aggressive idea emerged from the circle of Administration hawks. Liberalize the rules for domestic spying, they urged. Free the National Security Agency (NSA) to use its powerful listening technology to eavesdrop on terrorist suspects on U.S. soil without having to seek a warrant for every phone number it tracked. But because of a 1978 law that forbids the NSA to conduct no-warrant surveillance inside the U.S., the new policy would require one of two steps. The first was to revise the law. The other was to ignore...
...leading pay-TV satellite channels agreed to merge. The CanalSat-TPS deal would create a broadcasting giant in France worth at least $7 billion. That's modest compared with the year's biggest deals: the $28 billion acquisition last June by Telecom Italia of the 44% stake in mobile phone company Telecom Italia Mobile it didn't already own, and the $22 billion purchase by Italian bank UniCredito of Germany's Bayerische HypoVereinsbank. Other major deals included Pernod Ricard's acquisition of British drinks firm Allied Domecq, and a continuing three-way fight for control of that bastion of shareholder...
...list of industries it deemed to be in the strategic national interest. And in Rome, former governor of the Italian central bank Antonio Fazio tried to squash two bids by foreign banks for Italian ones. But his efforts quickly turned to a scandal after the publication of taped phone calls. Fazio finally quit just before Christmas - and one of the foreign bids, by Dutch bank ABN AMRO for Banca Antonveneta, eventually succeeded. Domestic politics remains a temporary risk, says Morgan Stanley's Pereira, but "the forces underlying European M&A trends are much stronger than any episodic national pushback." Indeed...