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Mucking about with federal agencies will do nothing to ensure our liberty. Just bring back the Department of War, and turn it loose. The best defense is a solid offense. JACK CRAWFORD Silver Spring...
...time Bush left for a month's vacation on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 4, that mood had changed. Where the President goes, the responsibilities of office follow, and so, each morning, Bush sat in the ranch office and received the CIA's Presidential Daily Brief. The brief--or PDB, in Langley-speak--is the CIA's chance to mainline its priorities into the President's thinking. Each day, the PDB is winnowed to a few pages; when the President is in Washington, one of two "briefers"--agency up-and-comers who flesh out the written text--gets...
...sends out 25 million credit-card statements every month--an easy way to distribute special offers on, say, a Lands' End golf shirt. "The two companies' strategies have been very different, but if they can leverage each other's strengths, you'll have a very powerful combination," says James Crawford, retail analyst for Forrester Research. Of course, that's what everyone said about AOL and Time Warner, so perhaps some caution is in order...
DIED. KEVYN AUCOIN, 40, celebrity makeup artist and advocate for gay youth, who sought to enhance the individuality of clients like Cher, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Love and Janet Jackson; of complications from a pituitary brain tumor; in Westchester County, N.Y. Through his makeup, he said, he aimed to boost clients' self-esteem...
...decide to attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Last week a "person close to the Crown Prince" told the New York Times there was talk within the Saudi royal family of using the "oil weapon" against the U.S. and of asking Americans to leave their Saudi bases. After the Crawford meeting, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said that "we will not use oil as a weapon," while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told TIME that the future of U.S. bases was not even discussed. Still, the question is now on the table: Could the U.S. dispense with Saudi oil and military...