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Trent Lott has long tried to have it both ways in the battle over civil rights, speaking in a code that signaled his support for segregationist groups but in words so vague that he could later deny that they meant anything at all. The Senator from Mississippi appeared as recently as the 1990s before a white-supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens, telling its members that they stand for "the right principles and the right philosophy." When confronted over the remarks later, he denied any "firsthand" knowledge of the group's beliefs. For years, the tactic worked for Lott...
...Senate colleagues and Mississippi constituents. It's hard to know what may have changed in Trent Lott's heart. But what's certain is that he knows how to count votes. And if he calculates that it's safe for a Southern, white Republican to forgo the old racial code words, that's a measure of progress. --With reporting by James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Jackson Baker/Oxford
...Laden would have been caught ages ago if media and government leaks did not warn him and his followers of every strategy the allies are using to try to catch him. Breaking the Enigma code in World War II contributed massively to the success of the campaign against Germany and significantly shortened the fighting. This was a success only because the media did not hear of the code or announce that it had been broken. The Germans never knew any of this until after the war was over. Does anybody believe that an equivalent secret could be kept today? Nicholas...
...payout. But now the carriers, along with Delta Airlines, are pushing to form an unprecedented three-way alliance that is causing even more consternation among their competitors. The three airlines have asked the Department of Transportation (DOT) to rapidly approve the alliance, which would allow the carriers to "code-share" on domestic flights, make interchangeable their frequent-flyer programs and combine sales and marketing operations. The DOT allowed a similar deal between United and US Airways, but this one would be even larger, accounting for more than 35% of the U.S. air-travel market...
...come down from their Confederate pride poles and join the New Mississippi. The great irony is that Lott's Republican colleague in the Senate, Thad Cochran, is seen in the state as a moderate leader sensitive to the plight of the poor, a man with no tolerance for racist code-language, bigoted euphemisms and Jefferson Davis homages. He is a Bush Republican, a true compassionate conservative...