In the interview, Mr. Spence was asked how a defense lawyer might handle a recording of Mr. bin Laden saying something like "we didn't expect the damage to be so great" as a result of the World Trade Center crashes.
BAA's January figures seem healthy enough, handling a record 5.2 million passengers – up 2.3% on the same period last year.
As the main port of entry to Japan, its two terminals handled a record 24.5 million travelers last year.
Last year, Spanish courts handled a record 58,241 home repossession cases linked to unpaid mortgages, up 22 percent from 2010, according to legal data published Friday.
Two of New York's three major airports, John F. Kennedy International and La Guardia, handled a record number of passengers last year, according to preliminary statistics released yesterday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
On a typical weekday Belmont, which handled a record crowd of 120,139 when Smarty Jones looked as if he might snatch the Triple Crown in 2004, lures perhaps 5,000 spectators.
The S.E.C. chairman, William H. Donaldson, selected Mr. Derby and two former Congressional aides to serve as advisers in managing "the commission's unprecedented growth," as the S.E.C. absorbs a 39percentt budget increase this year and handles a record number of enforcement cases.
John Johnson, who is in charge of deploying baggage handlers at O'Hare and has worked at United for 31 years, recalled a big celebration a few years ago when the airline handled a record 51,000 passengers at the airport in one day.
When handling a record, take it directly from its sleeve onto the turntable.
