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...later this year. But the idea probably won't go anywhere. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to oppose any proposal to take away the Pentagon's control over the Defense Department's intelligence agencies, where most intelligence dollars go. Tenet, who spent 10 years as a staffer on Capitol Hill, doesn't want to challenge Rumsfeld, who is at the height of his power. Those who know Tenet say he has little taste for taking on superiors. "[Tenet's] focus is always just going to be on getting the job done," says a source close to the Scowcroft panel...
Fifteen Harvard undergraduates will descend upon Capitol Hill today to lobby for more government funding of space development and AIDS programs...
...small number of key officials who would actually implement them. But it is vital that the executive branch work with Congress to develop a plan to reconstitute all branches of government in the wake of a catastrophic attack. This includes how a new Congress would be elected if the capitol were destroyed and how the Supreme Court would be selected if a number of the justices were killed. In the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, Americans would be quite reasonably nervous about their safety and about the future of the republic. Some of that fear could be assuaged...
...haven't heard those highly patriotic, vaguely chilling exhortations of the early post-Sept. 11 days and months - buy a car, or you're letting the terrorists win - in a while. But the terrorists never wanted to win this war in the conventional, occupy-the-Capitol sense. They were after changes in U.S. foreign policy, and from the inconsequential (no bedsheet turbans) to the far-reaching (meeting more energy needs at home) they're having a pretty good week...
...dusk. "I had to double-check the date on the cover," wrote a Colorado reader after experiencing a sense of deja vu. "For a minute there I thought we were back at the Clinton White House." "Your cover would have passed the bias test if it had substituted the Capitol building for the White House," suggested a New Jerseyan, "as both Democrats and Republicans were beneficiaries of Enron's greed." A Nebraskan pressed her charge more bluntly: "The article is about Enron, but the picture is of the White House. You're learning from the tabloids...