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Erskine Bowles looks like the same Southern gentleman he was two years ago when he ran a meek and losing campaign against Elizabeth Dole, but he's no longer acting like one. Instead, President Clinton's former chief of staff is hammering away at U.S. Representative Richard Burr for the...
authorities. The pair, both 43, have eluded police for more than 12 years. Raids of six other French houses on Oct. 3 turned up firearms, ammunition, 700 kg of dynamite, hundreds of detonators, two portable ground-to-air rockets, an underground firing range and stores of cash. One French investigator...
And yet, even as Western cities gird for more carnage, reports from Western Pakistan claim that al-Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri has been surrounded and that his boss can't be far behind. Pakistani officials began to backpedal on some of those claims, Friday, conceding that it...
But for now, it seems as though H Bomb will go unrecognized and unfunded. And, though we cannot be sure that the CCL gave up on H Bomb because of national media attention, it is likely that such pressures played an important role in the committee’s decision...
Bush has stopped short of public support for a Constitutional amendment, instead making vague statements that he will “work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage.” Nonetheless, this issue is sure to play an...