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...been studying polls that indicate that Americans aren't fully focused on the war against terror or inclined to back an independent commission to study intelligence failures. And last week the Administration nervously monitored the reaction to Bush's plan from his conservative base, which is allergic to any hint of expanded government powers...
During the conversation, Ridge gave no hint of the surprise that greeted Lieberman the next morning as he headed for a vote on the Senate floor. Reporters told Lieberman that President Bush would deliver a televised address that night to call for a new Cabinet-level agency even more sprawling and powerful than the one the Senator had proposed. Suddenly, the stampede was on for what the White House touts as the biggest reorganization of government in more than a half-century. The swiftness of the about-face was best summed up by Fred Thompson, the ranking Republican on Lieberman...
...society. Sociologists predict that both military and monastic life will become more popular. But these institutions will only be able to soak up a limited number of men, and the government fears a rise in crime, prostitution and drug use as a swarm of bachelors roam the countryside. A hint of that future has already arrived in Shaanxi's Qiaogou village, where children play under a dusty apple tree, tossing scraps of vegetables as makeshift toys. The noise is the raucous glee of boys being boys. There is only one girl playing among them. Seven-year-old Xiaochun is astonished...
...tourists. Every Omani will tell you how beautiful the mountains are, though few have actually made the day trip. Locals warn that it's risky to try to get to the fabled mountain villages, where terraced gardens bloom. They mention an unyielding police check-post, treacherous roads and hint at other, mysterious dangers. But my companions and I were not discouraged, not least because Arabs have a charming knack for hyperbole...
...evidence definitive? Not yet. But it does hint that nature has a powerful sense of poetic justice...