And Now, For Our Next Witness. When the Justice Department needed to show in U.S. District Court in 1976 that Metro subway tunnels would not threaten the foundation of the new Continental Trailways building at 12th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., it turned to Robert L. Redell. Redell, a construction engineering expert with degrees from Michigan State and
Several hours before sunrise on Friday, November 5, 1999, Mark Johnson entered Federal Building 3 in Suitland, Maryland, and went inside the ground-floor offices of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. The previous evening, a subordinate had called Johnson, one of the board’s two executive directors, with the news that five badge-bearing federal agents had shown up at the office just before closing time and
THE DEAL OF THE CENTURY The Breakup of AT&T By Steve Coll Atheneum. 400 pp. $18.95 THROUGHOUT MOST OF THIS CENTURY, it was the behemoth of American business: the largest corporation in the world, the purveyor of goods and services virtually no one could do without, and, for better or worse, a monopoly of mammoth dimensions. In its early