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Despite the polls, the President believes that giving people their money back is a political winner. On such domestic issues as education and homeland security, Bush has been willing to deal, but he is dug in on tax cuts--and he is pushing back. His trip to Ohio was a thinly veiled attempt to put pressure on a popular Republican, Senator George Voinovich, who opposes a big tax cut without equally big spending cuts. The President believes that a few members of Congress, unlike the French, will cave. "This is not his first rodeo," says a senior White House official...
...enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul, to say the least. U.S. officials believe Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to load the explosives into a small plane and crash it into the American consulate in Karachi. That prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to pilots and aircraft rental companies urging them to secure their planes. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer a concern," warns one official...
...months later, the study hasn't even begun. ATF officials were about to get started when the agency was transferred by the Homeland Security reorganization from the Treasury Department to Justice. Aides to Ashcroft, a dependable ally of the pro-gun lobby, then raised concerns about a January 2003 California state government report suggesting that wear and tear may alter a gun's ballistic signature. ATF firearms experts challenged the California findings, but Ashcroft's advisers decided to take the White House study away from ATF and hand it to an outside, presumably more objective, agency. "We wanted to have...
DIVINE INTERVENTION. Palestinian director-writer Elia Suleiman addresses the strife between his homeland and Israel in this deliberately composed, frequently absurd comedy. Suleiman also plays the film’s quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his imagination run wild elsewhere in the work; one much-dicussed dream sequence depicts a woman who suddenly rebels against the soldiers using her for target practice, taking the offensive in a blaze of martial arts fury. The film won two awards at last year’s Cannes...
...Department of Homeland Security been around eight years ago, its efforts would most likely have been devoted to rooting out the operations of Theodore Kaczynski ’62, also known as the Unabomber. Over the course of 17 years—from his first attack in 1978 to his last in 1995—Kaczynski carried out a systematic terror campaign, sending letter bombs to prominent members of higher education institutions that resulted in three deaths and 23 injuries...