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...plan, Congress hopes, will be cheaper and easier to implement, and less likely to incur the talk-show ire of civil libertarians and states' rights purists (the same type who squawked in 1908 when the FBI was born). But the approach is mere stealth - 50 different state ID cards all linked together is pretty much the same as one national ID card, just as all those new quarters are still worth 25 cents each, no matter which state is on the back...
...just the drive he dislikes. The proceedings themselves also draw his ire. "It's boring. I don't have to be there. Why should I go?" he asks. The court insists he attend most days. A media pack mobs him inside the courthouse, swarming around him as his four-man, one-woman legal team answers questions about the day's battle plan. Then the clerk calls the court to order and the three judges take their seats. Estrada faces the bench from the front row, sagging in a monogrammed barong tagalog, his lips tugged down in a pout, his eyes...
...this nervous post-Sept. 11 America, the word “security” has become a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility, rendering unnoticeable all sorts of measures that would previously have roused our ire. We allow our bags to be searched and our IDs to be checked because we believe in makes us safer, because questioning such measures makes us look suspicious and calls our loyalty into question. Businesses are counting on our silent compliance because we all fear that others will think we have something to hide if we protest. We have become a nation of citizens...
...fact that the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper was an ex-brother of the fraternity raised the ire of many within the group. Fraternity member Travis Caldaro was quoted in the Miami Herald as complaining that “I’m more embarrassed about the fact that a brother on the editorial board of the Miami Hurricane decided to print a story about his own fraternity...
...Pakistan, of course, is a likely target of ire: it is one of Washington's most important allies in the fight against terrorism, and that has brought it trouble enough already: outraged right-wing extremists, the possibility of an overwhelming refugee influx, a restive tribal population that is eager to fight alongside the Taliban. It's possible that the initial tests on the four envelopes will prove faulty, which has happened with anthrax scares in the U.S. and elsewhere: hoax letters have been found in Pakistan in the past few weeks. Nonetheless, says Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti, Karachi's Superintendent...