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Vice President Dick Cheney is the latest victim of the widening Enron sinkhole; his defiant refusal to reveal the names of people he met with while planning the administration's energy policy has the General Accounting Office in a litigious mood. Wednesday GAO Comptroller David Walker announced his office was suing the White House for access to energy task force documents...
...nation are recovering with newfound hope, camaraderie, resilience and an unrelenting belief that we are stronger today than we were before Sept. 11. Great men are defined by great challenges. It is easier to orchestrate an act of terror than to inspire a grieving nation. Rudy Giuliani was defiant and courageous, and it comes as no surprise that "America's Mayor" is TIME's Person of the Year. ANIL TANEJA Boston
...words for him. Chuckling heartily, he pointed to his nose. "Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei was still as defiant as he was in 1978, when he decided to publicly avow his conviction that China could never truly modernize without democratic reform...
...surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
...Palestinians believe the group represents a major threat to regional stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded up by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Abu Marzook outlined his defiant perspective from the group's exile base in the Syrian capital. Excerpts...