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TIME To what extent is Monster.com hurting the newspaper industry, which has long profited from help-wanted...
...some extent is faith," says Mike Gerson, the President's assistant for policy and strategic planning. Gerson and Budget Director Josh Bolten are evangelical Christians who believe there's a biblical imperative to help the world's poor. Along with then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, they opened a dialogue with Bono and ultimately persuaded Bush to meet him. "I took my boys, 8 and 10, to their first rock concert--U2 here in Washington," says Gerson. "We met Bono beforehand, and he says, 'I'm so honored that you would pick me for your first concert...
These weren't setbacks. They were outright, no-spin defeats: thrilling, fleeting moments when democracy actually seemed to work, when the powerful were forced to concede the limits of their own clout and spin. Katrina was the turning point, the moment when the extent of cronyism, incompetence and sheer smugness in Washington reached a level that even the White House couldn't ignore. FEMA's Michael Brown, the American people surmised with their wide-open eyes, was not doing a "heck of a job." And a President who could say such a thing obviously had no clue about what...
...Senate vote today on the renewal of the U.S.A. Patriot Act antiterrorism law could determine the extent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) power to demand patron information from Harvard libraries. The House of Representatives voted 251-174 Wednesday to renew a revised version of the Patriot Act, which expires Dec. 31. But at least one senator has vowed to filibuster the measure, and a bipartisan group of senators, including four Republicans and five Democrats, released a letter Wednesday criticizing the act’s failure to adequately address civil liberties concerns, especially those pertaining...
...utters these words immediately before authorizing the assassination of the Palestinians her Secret Service hold responsible for the Black September terrorist attack against Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Her pronouncement raises a philosophical question that the remainder of the film struggles to answer: to what extent does the need for national security legitimize violence?Israel responds to the Munich massacre by assembling a team of covert operatives, headed by ex-Mossad agent Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana), to locate and kill Black September’s Palestinian backers. Kauffman is given a list of targets, an amply funded...