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...course, Dennis Miller is not a Rush Limbaugh “Dittohead,” nor has he become a movement conservative. But like a vast majority of Americans he has been pleased with the president’s policies to combat terrorism. Miller has also shown that, unlike many of Tinseltown’s wannabe foreign-policy analysts, he understands the gravity of the threat posed by the intersection of rogue regimes, terrorists and deadly technology. He knows that a campaign to depose Saddam would not be an isolated war; rather, it would be another front in the larger...
...chain of command? Or both? Senator Allard has publicly identified Brigadier General S. Taco Gilbert III, the commandant of cadets, as a "common thread" in reports of women victims who felt they were treated punitively or indifferently. For the academy superintendent, Lieut. General John R. Dallager, a combat pilot with 600-plus hours' flying over hot spots like Southeast Asia and Bosnia--and the father of three daughters in the military--the scandal has been devastating. "There is a power relationship," he notes. "There is a potential for abuse...
Berlin also gave Libeskind combat experience in guiding a controversial design to completion. Now he and his wife Nina are moving back to New York City, looking for a new home "right next to the site." Architects like to keep a close eye on things. By the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was living full time on the construction site of his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. For the record, it's still unfinished. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York
Indonesia's police and military forces should be working together to subdue insurgencies, combat crime and crack down on terrorism. Last week, however, for the 15th time in the last two years, they battled each other. Some 60 air force personnel attacked a police station in East Jakarta, killing one policeman and wounding two others as they ransacked the office...
...caused a stir, but were insignificant compared with the damage that the Ashcroft Justice Department has inflicted on American freedom since 9/11--a zealot's agenda of illegal detentions, denials of due process and invasions of privacy. If the war on terrorism is open-ended, that means "emergency" measures to combat terrorism can go on indefinitely. That way lies the police state...