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...weary as some staffers may be there is at least one who has a sense of humor. Wednesday's party will feature a band called Nailing Jello. When someone who plans to attend heard the name he quipped: "Are they trying to remind us of how hard it is to fight the Taliban...
...after Sept. 11, lobbied Major League Baseball to improve safety so it could resume play as soon as possible. He has staged the events to help rally the country and show that business can get moving again. And last week it was Rove who pushed hardest for Bush to attend a $1 million Republican Governors Association fund raiser in Washington, arguing that elections and politics were an important part of getting back to normal. Rove almost won that fight too, but the there's-no-going-back crowd, led by Cheney, prevailed and the Vice President attended the dinner...
...fallen to Cheney to merge the messages, to declare that there is "a new normal" now--one that makes room for courage and fear, joy and loss; one in which we attend birthday parties and funerals on the same day. Unlike Bush, Cheney has been warning Americans that life is different now and is probably going to stay that way for the rest of our lives. The question, of course, is how different, and Bush will soon have to begin helping us chart the dimensions of the new normal. How he does it will be a measure...
...measures to bolt the nation's door, including the formation of a Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force to coordinate federal efforts to keep terrorists out and hunt them down if they slip in. Authorities will now check to see that those who enter the U.S. on student visas actually attend school. But there is an air of desperation to the proposals. "This was not an immigration failure; it was an intelligence failure," says Charles Keely, professor of international migration at Georgetown University...
...Even in this post-attack world, Congress has time to attend to other business. It helps if you can make the case that your bill is related, however tangentially, to anti-terror measures; for instance, proponents of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been trying to get their measure through by arguing that increasing the oil supply is a national security issue...