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...didn't risk figure into the formula written after 9/11 to bolster homeland security? In facing al-Qaeda, we knew we were dealing with an organization that sought mass casualties and headlines. In the confused days after 9/11, when Capitol Hill offices were closed after several were contaminated by letters containing anthrax, a small group of House and Senate leaders got together with Bush Administration staff members in a corner of the Capitol to write the homeland-security funding portion of the USA Patriot Act--a massive and sweeping bill that was propelled into law just six weeks after Sept...
...forcing out the Serbs and accelerating [the U.N.'s] departure." U.N. officials stress the violence is in fact undermining Kosovo's chances for independence by damaging its reputation abroad. KFOR, as the NATO force is known, is strengthening its presence. Some 1,000 reinforcements, mostly British, are arriving to bolster an 18,500-strong contingent. With many Serbs already on the move, some are wondering whether their days in Kosovo are numbered. "This might be the decisive battle for Kosovo and the survival of Serbs in Kosovo," a senior Belgrade official, Nebojsa Covic, said. The rhetoric has a familiar ring...
...meantime, events like the MIT Bouldering Competition help to bolster enthusiasm for the up-and-coming sport of indoor climbing...
...George W. Bush decided to take on Saddam, an account by Michael Ware and Nancy Gibbs on how Saddam might have been fooled into thinking he had weapons of mass destruction, an examination by Michael Duffy and James Carney of how Bush came to rely on bogus evidence to bolster his case for war, and an up-close look by Brian Bennett and Michael Ware at the methods being employed by the insurgents fighting the U.S. We ended 2003 by naming the American soldier as Person of the Year, which included a profile by Michael Weisskopf and Romesh Ratnesar...
...incentive will clearly be there for al-Qaeda-related groups to make their mark on those elections, too. It doesn't take a soothsayer to predict that new terror attacks in Britain or the U.S. would be more likely to stampede the voters behind Blair and Bush than to bolster any antiwar challengers. But that's unlikely to stop the terrorists from trying...