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...Vice President must. George W. Bush has not missed a chance to praise Americans for their kindness and spirit, has urged us to move forward, hope for the best. He talks about evil like one who believes in it but is still surprised when he encounters it. Vice President Dick Cheney is a stern shadow President in night-vision goggles, and last week his job was to prepare us for darker days to come. "We have to assume there will be more attacks," he said. "And for the first time in our history, we will probably suffer more casualties here...
...Wednesday morning, as President Bush was preparing to leave town for the Asian economic summit, he had breakfast with Lott, Daschle, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The five men have got chummier these past weeks. They had conspired to isolate the hotheads and slowpokes in both parties and move legislation for the war on terrorism with what for Washington was record speed. Daschle recounted what he had learned, including the possibility of spores spreading through the mail system to the House side of the Capitol, three blocks away. The men discussed the merits of shutting...
...create a Homeland Security agency—which meant more government, a no-no in the Bush campaign—Bush opted to leave the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in charge of developing policies to deal with domestic terrorism. Bush’s plan assigned an already overburdened Dick Cheney to assess the state of national security, even though the Commission had already made significant progress in that direction...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader...
...beginning was 1979, when Miyazaki graduated from Tokyo's Elite Gakushuin University. A scion of the family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...