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...when homeland security and amber alerts have informally deputized every Shoney's customer and freeway commuter, TV is reflecting reality: this fall it seems everyone is on the beat. There's the cabbie who solves crimes (CBS's Hack), the ex-cop who sees ghosts (UPN's Haunted) and the amnesiac genius who helps nab crooks (Fox's John Doe). What stands out is that several of the shows are packaging their hoary stories in some of the flashiest visuals on TV. As the old 7-Up slogan goes, they're the same thing, only different...
...cooperation from local Muslims. Indeed, FBI sources tell TIME that additional agents are being dispatched to Yemen to try to snap cuffs on Kamal Derwish and Jaber Elbaneh, two other members of the alleged cell and U.S.-born Yemenis thought to be hiding somewhere in their ancestral homeland. The agents, who will operate with Yemeni government permission, also hope to find more evidence against the "Buffalo Six." But there are questions about the strength of the government's case. When the six suspects were hauled into federal court last week, the prosecution's request that bail be denied...
...miner climbing to the surface after a long day in the tunnels and finding the sun painful to his eyes. "North Korea has been closed for 50 years," he says. "You have to give them light bit by bit." China's Orchid King wants his drab new homeland to reach for the sun?and, for the first time, to flower...
...Hiring and firing:The President believes he and the Homeland Security secretary should be able to hire and/or fire anyone they want - without explanation - when it comes to matters of national security (i.e. essentially anyone whose job falls under the aegis of Homeland Security.) They claim it currently takes far too long to do either (by their calculations, up to five months to hire and 18 months to fire...
...Sure, Republicans aren't thrilled about the idea of adding new Democrats to the voting rolls, but this is an election year, after all, and the President would much rather not make himself - and his party - a target for those pesky charges of "politicizing" the homeland security debate. So there is going to be at least an attempt on the part of the White House to couch this disagreement in terms of safety and proficiency rather than dragging it through the political...