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...tell you about ..." So begin the e-mail missives of Hiroshi Sakamoto, the septuagenarian survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, whose love of haiku poetry is later parlayed into an appreciation of all things modern. In Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also...
...more solid footing, or whether seeking additional latitude would amount to admitting the government had not been following the law. The most likely route would be an amendment to FISA, sources said. Lawyers following the controversy perked up their ears when Gonzales said at Georgetown that the government could begin monitoring based on whether there was a "reasonable" basis to believe the subjects were linked to terrorism. Some lawyers contend that is lower than the "probable cause" standard established by FISA. Gonzales said that the "terrorist surveillance program involves intercepting the international communications of persons reasonably believed to be members...
...still do not trust Shell," says Ledum Mitee, who runs the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, which Saro-Wiwa founded before being hanged. Mitee claims his members aren't responsible for the latest attacks. He says Shell must apologize for its practices of the past and begin direct talks with activists. Until then, "this is a situation which is really prone to violence," he says. With global oil supplies still tight, that's a warning that producers and consumers around the world would do well to heed...
...speech was only part of a high-stakes Administration effort to gain the upper hand before congressional hearings on the surveillance program begin February 6. On Wednesday, Bush will take a field trip to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade...
...When I begin to make decisions to protect you, to do my number one priority, rests upon this fact: that there is an enemy which is relentless and desirous to bring harm to the American people because of what we believe in," he said. Bush, hinting at a theme of his State of the Union address next Tuesday, went on to say that the threat to the nation was "not an isolated incident" and that the enemy still "lurks out there." Aides said Bush will say in that address that he has a responsibility to do everything possible to protect...