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...Cruise's formidable publicist, Pat Kingsley, will be all over this one, I thought. She'll run down those rumors like a redneck in a pickup truck, hitch 'em dead to the back and drag them down Sunset Boulevard. And then came the shocking report over the Associated Press wire, with Kingsley confirming the awful truth...
...unfortunate typo in a Reuters report at the weekend may hint at the Bush administration?s troubles in selling America?s allies on missile defense. "A system of defense need not be perfect," the wire service quoted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as telling European security chiefs gathered in Germany. "But the American people must not be left completely senseless...
Until their pardon last week, Marc Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, faced a truly impressive array of charges. The rogue commodity traders were indicted in 1983 on 51 counts of tax evasion, racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy. Had they not fled to Switzerland, each might have been sentenced to years in prison. The principal allegation against them concerned a scheme from 1980 and 1981, in which their U.S. company made nearly $100 million by selling oil at several times the government-controlled price then in effect. The indictment claimed that Rich's firm...
Inevitably, many of the other sights are military - rusting tanks, old emplacements. But there are some scenic splendors. Areas protected by mines and barbed wire have become accidental nature reserves, and while binoculars are used to scan the opposite coast for signs of trouble, they also spot herons, geese, and kingfishers...
...enough players to make a truly competitive market (at last count, 200 buyers and sellers). And instead of trying to go it largely alone as California did, Pennsylvania is part of a wholly integrated, five-state trading market, including New Jersey and Maryland, that has effectively managed the high-wire balancing act of swapping power. "Electricity is like an ecological system. You can't do one thing without affecting everything else," says Phil Harris, CEO of PJM Interconnection, which manages the grid. "It has to be a regional solution...