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...reality of the enormous task he has set himself and to acknowledge that it is messier, more daunting and more complicated than he ever imagined. Bush needs help, and he has admitted as much by calling on the U.N. Security Council to pass a new resolution to encourage the flow of more money and armed forces into Iraq. How he copes with the new reality on the ground and whether he gets the help he seeks will determine the fate of his presidency...
...Saudis do get ever improving marks from Washington for their efforts to shut down the flow of funds to terrorist groups. Riyadh has prohibited Saudi charities from sending money abroad without government permission. It has frozen $5.7 million in bank accounts suspected of having links to terrorism. It has restricted the activities of more than half a dozen charities, including the controversial al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, whose Somalia and Bosnia branches, Washington and Riyadh concluded, were supporting terrorist activities. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME, "The money aspect is now completely controlled, and your government knows...
That's an overstatement. For one thing, no one expects the flow of terrorist money to be cut off entirely, given the inventiveness of funding organizations and the fact that they often deal in cash. "It is sort of like trying to stamp out crabgrass," says Robert Jordan, U.S. ambassador to Riyadh. "As soon as you stamp one of them out, something springs up somewhere else under a different name...
ROBERT SMITH: Absolutely. The economy will be better in the second half and will flow overseas. Europe will be difficult initially, but that should pick up toward the back end in the fourth quarter. It's encouraging that the government has basically said it's going to do anything it can to get the economy moving and, once it begins to move, will let it run for a while. I don't think you can ask for more than that...
...heighten the appreciation of music and art or to strengthen the sense of connection to the natural world. It can deepen emotional and sexual intimacy, crystallize new ideas and insights, and expand one’s capacity to appreciate new aspects of life. Experienced users know that ideas flow more readily under its influence. Some of these ideas are good, some are bad; sorting them out is best done while straight. Now, whenever I have a difficult problem to solve or decision to make, I try to think about it both stoned and straight...