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DIED. ROBIN COOK, 59, former British Foreign Secretary who resigned from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq; after collapsing during a mountain hike; in Inverness, Scotland. Known for his debating skills and scandalous divorce, Cook declined to run against Blair for Labour Party leader in the '90s, declaring, "I am not good-looking enough...
...statement last week formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. But skeptics noted that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking to its vow. "It's time to put some meat on the bones," said Alan McBride, whose wife and father-in-law were killed by a 1993 I.R.A. bomb...
...tells you something about America's new reflexes that when Columbia vanished, NASA chief Sean O'Keefe called the White House and a Cabinet office that didn't even exist when the Challenger crashed: Homeland Security. "There are no survivors," the President said, but by then we had been watching the endless video of what looked like the shooting stars of August, knowing that those bright white puffs of star were made of metal and rubber and men and women. Like other fiery images, this one keeps replaying in the dark long after you turn it off, and while...
...disturb the neighbors, his friend eyes the bottle suspiciously. "Is this generic, or is it the good stuff?" he asks. Upstairs, several teens are sitting at the kitchen table listening to a girl who looks to be about 15 tell how she got the narcotic Oxycontin from the medicine cabinet at home. "It was left over," she says, "from my sister's wisdom-teeth surgery...
...system [June 20]. But that is only because the Democrats have consistently pointed out that solvency is the real issue. That fits the pattern. It was the Democrats who called for an official inquiry into 9/11, over Bush's objections; it was the Democrats who insisted on a Cabinet-level post for Homeland Security, over Bush's objections; it was the Democrats who insisted on making airport security a federal responsibility, over Bush's objections. Although the President has confounded the rest of the populace with his smoke-and-mirrors show on a range of other issues, Americans have...