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...without fistfights, other signs of patience abound as well. Last week, for example, my commuter train was leaving Grand Central at about 7 p.m. It had been, for all aboard - and there were more of us than usual, since the traffic tie-ups and, more significantly, the Mayor?s ban on cars carrying only one passenger, had enticed some suburbanites into leaving their cars at home - a long day at the office. The train chugged desultorily through the darkness of Grand Central, then stalled; it didn't have the power to get up the hill and out of the terminal...
This war will not be for the fainthearted. Sources tell TIME that the Administration is considering altering the ban on assassinating enemies of the U.S., adopted 25 years ago. Bin Laden, the Administration believes, is not covered by the ban; as one who has waged an act of war against the U.S., he is considered fair game in any military operation. But a change in policy might help the fight against other leaders of international terrorism. Guns and bombs, however, are not the whole story. "We should not overemphasize the military part of this," says a senior White House adviser...
...Clear Channel Communications radio network, an internal e-mail circulated last week listing more than 150 songs deemed possibly too sensitive to be played during this period, among them Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane. (Clear Channel contends the list was unofficial and did not ban any songs outright.) USA Network canceled an airing of the 1998 movie The Siege, a serious look at anti-Arab bigotry and paranoia after terrorist attacks in New York--arguably precisely the sort of issue the country needs to consider...
Council Extends DNA Experiment Ban...
Trimble said that the UUP would first propose a measure in the Stormont Assembly to ban Sinn Fein members from government. However, such exclusionary motions need to be supported by both a majority of unionists and a majority of nationalists. It is unlikely that the moderate, pro-independence Social Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) would join with unionists to oust Sinn Fein, especially with party leader John Hume planning to retire in November. Therefore, the UUP is set to leave the coalition if the IRA does not relinquish its weapons...