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...after they happen. But lawmakers of both parties complained that Ashcroft had cast off a 26-year-old policy without giving them any notice. Civil libertarians cried that the FBI was trampling on privacy in the name of security. And even George W. Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, was irked that the White House had been left out of the loop...
...picnic; Daschle likens it to "loading frogs on a wheelbarrow." Senate Democrats are a fractured--and fractious--bunch, including liberals itching to blast Bush, Southern "Dealocrats" who want to compromise with the White House, and presidential wannabes with their eyes on the 2004 prize. Daschle, who keeps an index card in his shirt pocket with favors that the Senators want each day, can sit for hours listening to their complaints. He has cultivated all of them, says majority whip Harry Reid, by "convincing each Senator that he or she is his favorite...
Seated with Bembry are a couple of dozen congregants, most of whom are middle-aged, middle-income African-American women with big credit-card bills and little or no savings. One by one they rise and recite their goals: to buy a home, start a business, finance a child's education. Dwana Washington, 42, says she would like to do all these things and also build up her $1,000 nest egg--a daunting ambition, considering how much she spends each month on day care for her three kids. Another woman volunteers that she is saving $11 a month...
...appetite for U.S. assets has clearly slowed. In 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, foreigners invested $281 billion in the U.S. In 2001, however, the level of investment sank to $149 billion. While the strong dollar has allowed the U.S. to max out its national credit card with purchases overseas, the currency imbalance is starting to cause pain in the U.S. "There are signs that the U.S. economy is struggling hard because of the strong dollar," says Harmen Lehment, a currency analyst at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. "The strong dollar is not in the interest...
Gomes also told police he used Pomey’s bank card to withdraw money from her account, according to the statement...