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...French approach terrorism much like doctors approach the common cold: Rather than wiping it out completely, they look for ways to manage it. This is done through a combination of years of patient intelligence-gathering and police work to ascertain the terrorists' modus operandi, and a set of laws that would (and in France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose...
President Bush claimed to have read Vladimir Putin's soul by looking into the Russian President's eyes. Now he may need to ascertain what lies behind Putin's Cheshire-cat smile - because the immediate future of Bush's prized missile defense scheme may be decided by the Russian leader. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle sounded notice Thursday that his party would use its control of the Senate to restrain the administration from acting unilaterally - and on missile defense that means negotiating an agreement with the Russians...
...liver. Someone opened the driver's door and Grubman "fell out of the car," said a witness. She fled in a friend's car. By the time patrol cars got to the friend's house, so had her lawyer. With her attorney running blocker, police could not even ascertain if Grubman had been driving the car, says Suffolk County district attorney James Catterson. "She was lawyered up, as we like to say." By the time police showed her photo to victims and identified her, he says, it was too late to test for alcohol...
...John Greenwald:Congress has oversight over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Billy Tauzin wants to ascertain whether the NHTSA has been doing all it can to ensure the safety of the vehicles Americans are driving, including the Ford Explorer. And, of course, both Ford and Firestone blame the other for the vehicles' safety problems - and the some 200 deaths that have been linked to the cars. So this inquiry raises serious questions about both corporate accountability and national safety standards...
There is no gripping plot in Unbreakable. Rather, the movie appears to be more of an intellectual journey asking questions about what is possible. The believability of Dunn's survival and subsequent discoveries is not debated extensively, but instead is used as evidence to ascertain why such a survival is possible. The entire middle section of the movie is devoted to Dunn's deciding whether to believe Elijah's hypothesis about the accident. Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical...