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...during the Olympic Games. The evidence fell apart and all charges against the suspects, two Afghan taxi drivers, were dropped. A retired Australian intelligence officer familiar with the case puts it down to "police hysteria.") The 40,000-strong Muslim community has "nothing for terrorists to organize," says Paul Buchanan, a former U.S. defense and security consultant who teaches politics at Auckland University. "And the logistics of trying to mount an attack here are rather insurmountable." The only reasons a terrorist might visit New Zealand, Buchanan says, would be "to hide, or if they're in transit to someplace else...
...changes, saying Kiwis' "human rights are now in the firing line." But for the National party's Mapp, they can't come soon enough. He believes "dangerous people" could slip in "buried in the numbers of people who overstay their visas and those who come in under humanitarian quotas." Buchanan says the latter is unlikely. The country's U.N.-agreed refugee quota is a tiny 750 a year, and of the 1,200 or so people who, like Zaoui, claim refugee status on arrival, fewer than 20% are accepted. "The easiest way in," he says, "is to get yourself...
Throw in a shelf-full of other accolades, including a four-time All-New England pick and a finalist for the Buck Buchanan award, given to the best defensive player in D I-AA, and what is the grand total...
...range from centrist-left (Franken) to Pacifica pink (morning-drive-time japer Marc Maron), are forthrightly partisan. In their zeal to defeat Bush, they seek out strategic allies rather than ideological ones. Thus Randi Rhodes, the hectoring, cocksure afternoon-drive-time host, cuddled up to the right-wing Patrick Buchanan--who opposed the Iraq war, so he's cool--and berated Ralph Nader until he hung up on her. Rhodes and Nader agree on 98% of the issues, but Nader dares to run against John Kerry...
...suburbanites who abandoned the G.O.P. in the past when it got too wild-eyed about culture wars. "If they spend so much of their campaign talking about gay marriage," says Kerry press secretary David Wade, "it puts them back in 1992 at the Republican convention in Houston with Pat Buchanan...