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Bush faced a sudden collapse of public faith in the men he had picked to run the home front, particularly the former swing-state Governors Ridge and Thompson. In days of briefings, neither had been able to get his arms around the crisis; both had a bad habit of raising more questions than they answered. They were each responsible for coordinating the efforts of agencies, from the FBI to the CDC to the Army's biowar researchers, that seemed unable or unwilling to share what they knew with one another. "The Toms let him down this week," said...
...About the only thing that Manila has in common with London is damp-that and a reputation for giving succor to terrorist supporters. Britain has always had a habit of providing safe haven to political refugees; that's why Karl Marx is buried in Highgate cemetery. But in the past 20 years, says Neil Partrick, a Middle East analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, London has become "the capital of the Arab world." As they used to say in Britain: Whoever lost the Lebanese civil war, London won it. With Beirut in ruins, banks relocated from Lebanon; they were...
...This habit at golf, Schauer argued, indicates of Clinton’s personality as a whole...
...that cost 5,000 rupees [about $80] each? I could sell them in the bazaar." In the same province, recounted this commander, an old Afghan invested in a donkey and a lantern so he could salvage scrap metal from downed U.S. aircraft at night. War is an age-old habit with Afghans, and they squeeze from it what benefit they...
Whenever catastrophe strikes in the United States or elsewhere, our government has the unpleasant habit of restricting Americans’ freedom to travel. Currently, our government has made travel to Cuba, Libya and Iraq illegal, on the argument that visiting these nations is ostensibly dangerous. The real reason for these restrictions has nothing to do with safety concerns, but rather the government’s unwillingness to allow our tourist dollars to support unfriendly economies...