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...mouth shut, but the breach at ChoicePoint has had politicians in full gumflap. "Our system of protecting people's identity is virtually nonexistent in this country," said Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York. Schumer's staff was able to download personal information on the likes of Dick Cheney and Brad Pitt from a ChoicePoint rival, Westlaw. Nearly 10 million people were victimized last year by identity theft, at a cost of $5 billion. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, pledged to schedule hearings on the topic. And that was before Bank of America learned, as first reported by TIME.com...
LESS FUNNY, MORE SAD Lynn Cheney, Joe Lieberman, and Tipper Gore, you triumvirate of wisdom, you: the moment of vindication is now. Last weekend, having finally given up her apparently hopeless pursuit of a boyfriend, one female junior needed inspiration. So she turned (where else?) to the O.C. When Marissa Cooper’s luck with men ran dry, she hit the bottle—and then, of course, she hit the boobies...
...significant religious movement. (The Rev.) Jeff Carr Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Reality in Iraq Columnist Joe Klein's "The End Of Rose-Petal Fantasies" suggested that hawkish neoconservatives may be losing their influence on the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq and elsewhere [Feb. 7]. Klein says Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who were "complicit in rose-petal scenarios" for Iraq, may now be less susceptible to fantasies. The only fantasy I can see is Klein's in thinking that what has happened in Iraq has been a failure. Iraq is far from a lost cause...
...can’t understand your enemy until you walk a mile in his shoes,” Robbins said wryly when presented with a Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign poster...
...Maupins' spirits have been buoyed by visits and calls from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. But their heartache is growing. They are in a special kind of pain because of the special kind of war their son is fighting. He is not "missing in action"; rather, because a group claims to have seized him, he is considered "captured." Yet he is not a "prisoner of war" because no one at the Pentagon has the faintest idea what that group--the "Persistent Power Against the Enemies of God and the Prophet"--is. Consequently, there...