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...contributed to the criticism that he has made too many on-the-record gaffes by speculating last week in the Wall Street Journal that a war with Iraq might cost from $100 billion to $200 billion on the very day the President was preaching fiscal discipline. White House officials insist Lindsey is not being forced out but that he may conclude on his own that he should go. "No one has been asked to leave yet," says one top aide. Hubbard is well regarded but may also leave to resume his academic career and rejoin his family in New York...
...arrests, the Justice Department is boasting that, for the first time since Sept. 11, it has detected and broken up an active al-Qaeda cell. Of course, officials admit there's no evidence the men were mounting an attack or stockpiling explosives or weapons. The suspects' friends and relatives insist that there is a misunderstanding, and so far prosecutors have only charged the group with providing "material support" to al-Qaeda, a crime carrying a maximum 15-year sentence. Still, local citizens provided tips, law-enforcement agencies shared information, and people kept their mouths shut until arrests were made. That...
...areas. Cops often fudge that distinction. "Police stop generally young males in high-drug-traffic areas based on very little suspicion all the time," says Bill Stuntz, a Harvard Law School professor. "The reality on the streets is some distance from what the law says." In Wilmington, the police insist that they abide by the law by engaging in surveillance before they send out the jump-out squads. But what especially bothers the Wilmington operation's critics, who range from civil libertarians to local politicians, is the pictures taken by the police. The A.C.L.U. is considering suing the police department...
...keep Parliament in session during the usual summer recess. Brushing off suggestions that the new laws are made-to-order, Pecorella said, "They apply to everyone." Still he told TIME that the political implications of his client's case are undeniable. Berlusconi and a co-defendant - Previti - insist they are victims of a vendetta from left-leaning judges and prosecutors. Asked Pecorella: "If there were a prosecutor in England - let's say, an anarchist - who was trying at all costs to put the Queen on trial, wouldn't there be cause for concern?" Previti made a surprise appearance in court...
...Saddam's specific violations, far-reaching requirements to fix them and the consequences if he fails. The Administration has lobbied vigorously to put all that in a single resolution that goes on to authorize use of military force if Saddam impedes the inspectors' work. But France and Russia insist there has to be a second, subsequent resolution approving force, and even British officials think the U.S. may have to live with that. Yet that would free Saddam from the threat of an automatic, U.N.-sanctioned invasion if he thwarts inspections...