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...which runs it, claim it has been a big success. Except for an arrest last month of an armed pilot who allegedly arrived at work drunk, there have been no problems like inadvertent discharges or illegal use of weapons, which often occur among new officer groups. But some pilots complain that the TSA has never embraced the idea, providing little follow-up after training and denying them basic intelligence data like the weekly suspicious-incident reports. "The government wants it both ways," says one pilot. "They want us to protect aircraft, but they don't want to pay much...
...world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted that John Paul was steadily recovering last week - few believe he would deny an illness he knew could be fatal. And since the Pope's health is itself increasingly a central issue for the church, there...
...Japanese banknote, as does that of Meiji-era novelist Soseki Natsume, a Murakami influence. Others Murakami admires, he has admitted, include Fitzgerald, Carver, David Foster Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese. Guilty, with an explanation. As Kafka demonstrates, Murakami's Japan is a land of truck stops, rock music, Ray-Bans, Hollywood movies and workouts at the gym. But for his youngish, hip, history-oblivious fans, this is Japan. More than...
Although senate Republican co-president Jeff Lamberti says he can't think of a "better way to send the message to young people that we want them," his constituents are skeptical. Older voters complain that the proposed tax reprieve smacks of ageism, while many younger residents who would benefit say it would be nice but ineffective. "As a taxpayer, yeah, I'd like to save $1,000 or more," says Adam Cooley, 23, a recent grad working in Cedar Rapids. "But the job opportunities need to be there." Voters in North Dakota agreed in 2002, rejecting...
WHAT DO LIBYANS TELL YOU? If you put them in paradise, they will still complain. [Laughs.] Libyans are in paradise...