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...some reason to be. When Rowley walked into her office on the morning of Sept. 11 and saw the Twin Towers burning on TV, she immediately thought of Moussaoui. For three weeks her office had been trying--and failing--to get FBI headquarters to allow a request for a search warrant of his computer. Agents had had him arrested for overstaying his visa while they looked into his past. As Rowley wrote in her memo, French officials and other intelligence sources established that Moussaoui was affiliated with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama bin Laden. Minneapolis agents...
When the Federal Government refused to back troubled United Airlines' request for $1.8 billion in aid last week, executives at Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines must have patted themselves on the back. In an unusual display of ganging up on one of their own, the two carriers had for months aggressively and publicly lobbied against the payout. But now the carriers, along with Delta Airlines, are pushing to form an unprecedented three-way alliance that is causing even more consternation among their competitors. The three airlines have asked the Department of Transportation (DOT) to rapidly approve the alliance, which would...
...that she has mismanaged the office. Among the allegations: that she forced out a number of senior career staff members, improperly kept a gun in her office and ran up questionable travel bills. She is also under fire for delaying an audit of a Florida pension fund at the request of a top aide to Governor Jeb Bush...
...after Independence Day in 2001 (this could only be an American Christmas story), Minuto filed suit against Harvard for, among other things, breach of contract after his transfer request was denied. A redshirt freshman at Tulane University who had once starred at quarterback for Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey, Minuto contended that Murphy and then-assistant Bruce Tall promised him that his transfer request would be successful, that the rest of the admissions process was a formality and that he should drop his Tulane commitments and any other transfer plans to pack his bags for Cambridge...
...powers India, Pakistan and Russia?facing ancient adversaries armed with weapons of mass destruction on its eastern flank, too. Last month, during a regular meeting of senior foreign ministry diplomats at a luxury compound east of Beijing, a group of about fifteen department heads and other officials discussed a request from Washington that Beijing use its influence to convince Pyongyang to halt nuclear weapons development. According to one of the meeting's participants, "officials suggested cutting energy and food aid, and even opening the border to let more refugees in"?radical moves more aligned with Washington's "axis of evil...