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Since the crack epidemic, drug-law enforcers have been granted huge budget increases ($19.2 billion this year, up from $3.1 billion in 1982). When the Ninth Circuit weighs the hemp case, a broader issue will be whether the DEA has overstepped the authority that accompanies so much cash. For its part, the agency is seeking to minimize the importance of its new rule on hemp foods. Last week DEA administrator Asa Hutchinson told TIME the rule could even change in light of recent objections from the public, though that may be small comfort to businesses that lose money until then...
...inspection division of the Financial Services Agency, Hirofumi Gomi, has been tenaciously reviewing the loan portfolios of Japan's leading banks and the balance sheets of debtor companies. The verdict: more bad debt than was previously estimated. But plans to take the results of Gomi's audits and crack down on corporate slackers is being stymied by higher-ups within his own agency. "Koizumi needs to make a decision and fire some people," says an analyst who has advised the Prime Minister. "So far, he won't do it." He had better take action soon to convince people there...
...Replayer that lets people hack into their Replay 4000 and transfer files to their PC. Once the shows are in the computer, users are free to squeeze them down further, burn them onto a CD or dvd or trade them online. It took Wagner less than a week to crack the box's coding...
...Arafat was understandably livid that Rajoub's men failed to stand up to a crowd that had stormed the Hebron prison seeking the release of Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners. After all, he faces unrelenting pressure from Israel and the U.S. to do more to crack down on terrorism, and pays a political price for any perceived failure. Further, he believes the situation is deteriorating because of what he sees as negligence on the part of his security apparatus. Three months ago, Arafat reportedly unleashed a similar (though not physical) tirade against his Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan...
...finish off the regime in Baghdad, and a battle plan for a quick and decisive victory. The administration hopes to provide Cheney with both before he flies out. The commitment part is there. But the battle plan will be more difficult. Saddam's Iraq is a tougher nut to crack than Taliban-held Afghanistan; Hussein still has a large army and a considerable amount of military hardware at his disposal, one that possibly includes chemical and biological capability. The absence of an obvious Northern Alliance equivalent to do America's infantry work by proxy means U.S. troops would have...