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...they increasingly see little alternative. Balasingham told TIME: "Sri Lanka will inevitably plunge into an ethnic war with disastrous consequences if the escalating violence is not contained and normalcy restored." Rajapakse told a Colombo newspaper last week: "If they insist on continuing their attacks, I will have to defend my country." Hawks are ascendant on both sides. DeVotta says elements in the government believe the split within the L.T.T.E. has weakened the rebels to a point where they can be beaten in war. Chalk and other observers predict a full-scale attack by the Tigers on Jaffna, accompanied by suicide...
...huge spike above 2005; his opponent in the race for California attorney general has just called him soft on crime; one of the two charter schools he helped start is in need of cash; and now Fox television wants him to go on camera as a commentator and defend a new text-messaging service being marketed to teens that offers information on sex. "I am a little stressed today," he says...
...staff Josh Bolten's "recovery plan" [May 1]. The trouble is that Bolten's campaign is designed to elevate the President's poll numbers rather than solve the ugly problems the Administration has created for the country. It is hard to imagine any American finding valid reasons to defend George W. Bush's performance. There are new revelations almost every day about questionable conduct and incompetence among the President's staff and appointees. Let's hope they never again have the guts to lecture us on patriotism, character, integrity or family values. At a time when the world needs leaders...
...have the power to order wiretaps on purely domestic phone calls without court approval. "I'm not going to rule it out," he told the House Judiciary Committee. Says Dale Carpenter, a constitutional-law expert at the University of Minnesota: "If the Administration claims literally bottomless Executive power to defend the country--and it has--then I think we can expect that there are many such secret programs out there that we haven't yet learned about and that members of Congress may not even know about." But as Bush's pick to head the CIA prepares for his Senate...
...staff Josh Bolten's "recovery plan" [May 1]. The trouble is that Bolten's campaign is designed to elevate the President's poll numbers rather than solve the ugly problems the Administration has created for the country. It is hard to imagine any American finding valid reasons to defend George W. Bush's performance. There are new revelations almost every day about questionable conduct among the President's staff and appointees. Let's hope they never again have the guts to lecture us on patriotism, integrity or family values. At a time when the world needs leaders, that crowd...