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...Whoever joins the new economic team may very well be pushing next year for a complete overhaul of the tax code. Bush has not fully settled on the idea, but it makes political sense. It would show the Administration taking a big swipe at fixing the economy and would allow Bush to defend any new tax cuts by arguing that the reductions are just one part of making the system fairer...
...come at any moment, al-Faruq's interrogators relayed his revelations to the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in Langley, Va. Al-Faruq's story tracked with several recent intelligence reports from Southeast Asia about an increase in suspicious activities near American embassies. A day later the U.S. issued its code-orange terror alert. Al-Faruq's threatened attacks never occurred...
...Sicily. They had pretended to be seamen, but their ignorance of navigation aroused the suspicion of the ship's captain, who diverted his vessel from Libya to Sicily. The men had false passports, along with lists of names with the annotation "about to get married" - believed to be a code used for a terrorist who is about to attack. U.S. Ultimatum at the U.N. In a forceful speech at the United Nations, U.S. President George W. Bush told world leaders that Iraq "is a grave and gathering danger." Bush said the U.S. wanted to disarm Iraq of chemical and nuclear...
...that this is where you can see and hear the workings of Bush's mental circuitry: where he has experience and knowledge and a sense of the players and the pressures they live with, he can accept the grays, forgive the weaknesses and stop short of applying his moral code. But where his background is not as deep, and those skills are in shorter supply, he is quicker to invoke absolute judgments and stick with them come what...
...National Customs Automation Program (NCAP). General Motors, which developed the software, is sharing it with its rivals; the system transmits to customs computers advance information about trucks and drivers dispatched from Canada to the U.S. When the driver arrives at the inspection booth, he simply hands over a bar-coded document, gets scanned and, if everything matches, goes on his way. GM is experimenting with truck-mounted transponders to beam the data to the customs booth while the truck is still on the bridge. Under the old system, Anderson explains, a truck could take 1 1/2 hours to clear. "With...