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...pilots' lobby complains that current security measures are unreliable and contends that pilots are the last line of defense against hijackers' turning planes into guided missiles. In Luckey they found a prominent and credible advocate. The barrel-chested special-operations Vietnam veteran was one of the first civilian pilots selected for the U.S. armed antihijacking corps, in 1974. Since 9/11 he has devoted hundreds of hours to lobbying Congress and talking to the media. He has persuaded reluctant Washington bureaucrats that pilots have a unique case: "We're the ones who strap our asses to the target every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pilots Packing Heat | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

Kirk says he has no choice but to enlist outside support since he's looking down the barrel of Bush's fund-raising might. The President and Vice President have already flown home on Cornyn's behalf; Laura Bush will appear at a Cornyn money drive this week in Austin, where the price of a photo with the First Lady will be $5,000. While the two campaigns have raised equivalent war chests, Cornyn has just begun to tap his, while Kirk had to spend heavily to win a three-way Democratic primary. "I have to be on TV when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can He Rope Texas? | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...CHRISTOPHER'S METTLE: Kirkus is convulsed by "No Way to Treat a First Lady" by Christopher Buckley (Random House; October 15), giving it a glowing starred review. "Wicked humorist Buckley shoots fish in a barrel and makes them dance. The targets in this sendup of Washington - trial lawyers, first families, Court TV, MSNBC, Dan Rather, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the America appetite for the awful - are the last decade's scandals, which, rather than being gluey and unbearable in the reheating, are even more fun this time around....Unspeakably and endlessly funny. Unless you're a former president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: The Natural Law Edition | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

...April 30, nearly six weeks after the Administration started holding deputies' meetings, Clarke presented a new plan to them. In addition to Hadley, who chaired the hour-long meeting, the gathering included Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby; Richard Armitage, the barrel-chested Deputy Secretary of State; Paul Wolfowitz, the scholarly hawk from the Pentagon; and John McLaughlin from the CIA. Armitage was enthusiastic about Clarke's plan, according to a senior official. But the CIA was gun-shy. Tenet was a Clinton holdover and thus vulnerable if anything went wrong. His agency was unwilling to take risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Had A Plan | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...Kirk says he has no choice but to enlist outside support since he's looking down the barrel of Bush's fund-raising might. The President and Vice President have already flown home on Cornyn's behalf; Laura Bush will appear at a Cornyn money drive this week in Austin, where the price of a photo with the First Lady will be $5,000. While the two campaigns have raised equivalent war chests, Cornyn has just begun to tap his, while Kirk had to spend heavily to win a three-way Democratic primary. "I have to be on TV when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a Texas Democrat has the GOP Worried | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

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