That included recordings of Mr. Pellicano's telephone conversations that were seized in a search of his Sunset Strip offices four years ago.
Relief officials said marauding soldiers, some from Taliban units and others from the Northern Alliance, stole their trucks and stripped offices of everything from tools to medical equipment.
GOP lawmakers have recently begun moving to strip power from the offices Democrats just won.
It began as a strip called "Office Pest", in which an average office, populated by the characters you see on aeroplane safety information cards, was replete with murder, shit-smearing and team building.
But perhaps there are some handy rules to follow for the more intrepid (dumb) among us.Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert", a fantastically successful comic strip about office life (that happens to be only marginally less dreary than actual office life), has written up a few tips on "How to Write Like a Cartoonist" for the Wall Street Journal.
The bad, if predictable, news is some of those lawmakers are trying to strip the office of its powers.
The street's appearance is a result of an early 1960s plan for a sleek, modern strip of office buildings in what had been an old maritime district.
By this, Mr. Alexander means not only strip malls, office parks and tract homes, but also much of what is fawned over these days by highbrow critics.
"The whole gold coast of New Jersey," a waterfront strip of office buildings and luxury high-rise apartment towers facing Manhattan across the Hudson, "is built on contaminated land," said Daniele Cervino, vice president and general counsel of Environmental Waste Management Associates, a cleanup company in Parsippany, N.J.
