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Like Attie, O’Donnell has also injected his real-life political experiences into the show’s storylines. O’Donnell, who also serves as a senior political analyst for MSNBC and a panelist on “The McLaughlin Group,” says everything he has written for the show stems directly from his work in Washington. In addition to serving as the Chief of Staff on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and then in the same position on the Senate Committee on Finance, O’Donnell...
...Islamabad also viewed the raid--which involved hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, two of whom were killed--as an indication that Pakistan is getting more serious in the fight against terrorism: "It was quite a bold move, because this is an area where the government has rarely operated." Security analyst Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general in the Pakistani army, said the raid may be evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in Pakistan's tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed...
...attendance at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, La., declined 3%, and Bay Meadows, near San Francisco, has seen a 2% drop this fall. Arlington Park's on-track handle is down 1% since the movie's release. "I haven't noticed any marked improvement since Seabiscuit," says Ryan Worst, an analyst for C.L. King & Associates. "People are smart enough to know that the depiction of an industry 60 years ago does not correlate with the experience at the racetrack today," says Tom Aronson, a racing consultant. "That would be like going to Yankee Stadium and waiting for Babe Ruth to show...
...another step toward a cashless society, but there's a debate about who ultimately benefits--employer or employee. Unbanked employees stand to gain by avoiding hefty check-cashing fees, says Ariana-Michele Moore, an analyst at Celent Communications, a Boston-based consulting firm. Such fees are typically 2% to 3% of a check's value but can go as high as 10%. Generally, employees can use the cards at ATMs to withdraw cash or make purchases at stores. Celent estimates that by 2006, payroll cards will reach 3.8 million workers, mostly low-wage or temporary employees in industries like retail...
TIME'S JYOTI THOTTAM asked our Board of Economists to sort it out. The panel includes Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute; Gary Burtless, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Veronique de Rugy, fiscal-policy analyst at Cato Institute; Edward McKelvey, senior economist at Goldman Sachs; and David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor...