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...fine comb that law-enforcement officials dragged across America last week picked up as many questions as answers. Nabil Al-Marabh is an example. Arrested Wednesday night outside Chicago, his name is on a U.S. list of "suspects, potential associates of the suspects and potential witnesses"--more than 200 people in all--who may have answers about Sept. 11. Al-Marabh made the list because U.S. officials have been concerned for months about his ties to a man named Raed Hijazi. Hijazi had listed Al-Marabh as his emergency contact at work; both men used to drive for Boston...
...many devices to tap. What Ashcroft's critics predict is a world of "anticipatory monitoring" in which a multitude of innocent bystanders is caught up. It doesn't help that he also wants Congress to allow the FBI to use routinely its controversial Carnivore software, which can comb through millions of e-mails and Web searches, looking for suspicious online activity. "All these provisions together will amount to a breathtaking expansion of federal power," says Nadine Strossen, president of the A.C.L.U...
...fill a seven-page form with information about the victims' dental records, scars, tattoos and inscriptions on wedding rings. Blood relatives have been asked to provide samples of their own DNA, collected with a swab from the inside of their cheeks, along with the victim's toothbrush, razor or comb--anything that might still hold a bit of their loved one's DNA. Since the crash of TWA Flight 800, DNA testing is considered obligatory in any case in which bodies are too burned and mangled to be identified through photographs or forensic dentistry. Any body parts that are unclaimed...
...term for futility, and these days we have been hearing it a lot lately. But the great need - the market imbalance, as it were - is for a few more euphemisms for futility in Washington politics, where it is as common as comb-overs...
...More than happy to discuss the tiniest detail in a piece of legislation, or to comb through propositions geared towards her new home state, Clinton is guarded when it comes to her husband. And that disinclination to expose her much-discussed marriage seems to be serving her very well...