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...Timothy Woodland was born in 1976, and grew up in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He enlisted in 1995, and, after a stint on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, was shipped out to these islands four years ago. Woodland lived and worked on Kadena Air Force Base as a member of the Air Force 353rd Special Operations Group. His duty assignment was to select the best-suited aircraft to fly each mission scheduled at the base. His military record is unremarkable except for an achievement medal awarded in 1997. "He was a pretty quiet guy, and he was always playing...
Mueller's resume, however, suggests he is tough enough for the burden. Although born to an affluent family and educated at Princeton, Mueller enlisted in the Marines in 1967 and earned a rack of medals for his Vietnam service. After law school at the University of Virginia and a stint in private practice, he became a federal prosecutor and then U.S. Attorney in Boston. "It seemed to me he stood head and shoulders above all the other persons mentioned," says Dick Thornburgh, the former Attorney General who tapped Mueller to become Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division...
...Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page chief at the JoongAng Daily: "Any time we write anything critical of the President or government policy, we get calls, sometimes...
...Belgians are frustrating Laura Lusuardi. For the last 34 years it has been her job to find new talent to come and work at Max Mara, the successful Italian label known for mixing fashion with practicality. So far she has fared pretty well: Karl Lagerfeld did a stint in the early 1970s; so did Dolce & Gabbana 15 years later. Today the fashion director scouts the fashion schools because, she says, young designers are already too commercial to be interesting to her. The Flanders Fashion Institute in Antwerp is famous for turning out some of the most creative minds in fashion...
...DaimlerChrysler, Völkl rackets and the rtl television network. But his venture online was less successful. The German sports site Sportgate, of which Becker owned 60%, shut down two weeks ago, just three months after launch, with insiders blaming disagreements among the shareholders. In 1999, Becker's stint as Germany's Davis Cup manager also ended in failure, largely because he couldn't get along with one of the country's leading players, Nicolas Kiefer. That same year Becker was the front man for a $300 million bid by the London-based agency Prisma to market the ATP Tour...