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...will that renewal be more than cosmetic? DeLay's announcement, marking the rueful surrender of a warrior who once wielded such unquestioned power that no bill could reach the President's desk without his assent, touched off a furious scramble at the Capitol among ambitious members who want a leadership seat when the music stops on Feb. 2, the date set for internal House G.O.P. voting. The election falls two days after President George W. Bush's planned State of the Union address and could do as much to define the Republican Party at the start of the midterm election...
...Italy is really no match for the Chinese giant. China is getting stronger and stronger and will soon move on to conquer the next country or continent. China wins with a simple, convenient formula: a communist social structure, a capitalist economy, small concern for trade rules and a furious rush. As an Italian politician said, If China had our union leaders, it would not survive for long. Franco G. Sclano Rome Exit Strategy No matter what happens in Iraq, it won't end the war on terrorism [Dec. 5]. We must stay the course in the 21st century, or there...
This time cheers rose into sustained, foot-stomping bedlam, which drowned out further words, and King stepped back into the embrace of colleagues already in furious consultation. With Lawson, Andrew Young passed King a note that perhaps he could swing back through Memphis. Temporarily at least, the rejuvenating clamor made the garbage strike seem the heart of a poverty movement instead of a foolish diversion from the march planned for Washington...
Fans of tight bellbottoms and stilted acting: H.B. Halicki’s original “Gone in 60 Seconds” is the Holy Grail. Halicki’s fast-and-furious 1974 thriller is chock full of women with skyscraping AquaNet-infused hair and, of course, plenty of cops-and-robbers car-chase sequences. Unfortunately, despite multitudes of overly-tan men with enormous sideburns, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” can’t hold a candle to director Dominic Sena’s 2000 remake—skipping...
...time, the meetinghardly seemed notable--let alone the start of the world's deadliest partnership. It was late in 1999, and Osama bin Laden was sheltering in Afghanistan, already deep into his plot to attack the World Trade Center. His visitor was a burly young Jordanian, bruised and furious after spending six years inside his country's worst prisons. Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi had traveled to Afghanistan with a proposal for the al-Qaeda chief: he wanted to rally Islam's "true believers" to rise up against corrupt regimes in the Middle East. Bin Laden was skeptical. While...