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...hour or so, The Majestic looks like the perfect post-Sept. 11 Christmas card. In repose, Carrey has the right face for this role: handsome-ordinary and lightly fretful. He and an over-the-hill gang of character actors (especially Landau, who does winsome as well as any 70-year-old) ground their fable in Golden Age geniality. But the story has to carry way too much weight, as war remorse battles McCarthyism. The Majestic's makers don't get what made Capra movies invigorating: a ferocious pace and the realization that even the nicest townsfolk have weaknesses and venalities...
...last student to come to the front lost a relative in the towers. He asks Mike to read his card, a Christmas tree rendered in crayon on blue construction paper. "I like you because you saved so many people in the Twin Towers," says Mike, tripping over the little boy's handwriting. "Thank you for trying to save everybody's life. You are very brave. Too bad you didn't save more people. I wish you could have saved Kris...
...council gathered on Sept. 15. After Tenet briefed the team on his infiltrate-the-spooks operation, General Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, laid out four military options for Bush. A quick cruise-missile response was ruled out as ineffective; White House chief of staff Andy Card called this the "pound sand" alternative. Another was more or less a full-scale invasion. Two other options called for different combinations of cruise missiles, bombers, tactical air strikes and special forces, one heavier than the other. "It was pretty clear that cruise missiles and bombers we're gonna...
Improved security will also require the use of technology to verify passenger identities and control access. Garvey says a smart-card program is one of the options that should be considered, on the assumption that knowing exactly who is getting on the plane is crucial. "We have to figure out where best to focus our security resources," she says...
...interest rates and the desire or need to tap their most valuable asset, Americans this year refinanced more than $1.1 trillion of mortgages--roughly a fifth of all mortgage debt. In 65% of cases, homeowners borrowed more than they owed and used the difference to pay down credit-card debt, finance a home improvement or build a cushion for tough times. It's a low-risk way to get cash. "Very rarely have home values declined nationally, though pockets can take a hit," notes Dan Gilbert, ceo of Quickenloans.com...