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...Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy told TIME that "the biggest danger is that [terrorists] unravel the constitutional protections we've spent 200 years as a democracy to build." By last Thursday, however, Leahy was on the phone to Ashcroft, suggesting that staff members work through the weekend to iron out the remaining points of disagreement...
...have been a boon. With the attraction of new machines and a more modern workout environment, other athletic facilities offered by the gym, such as exercise classes, have seen new boosts in registration. Kickboxing, Cardio Jam and Yoga, to name a few, offer an alternative to pumping iron or Precor-ing to one’s heart’s content. The MAC’s newfound popularity may have resulted in longer lines, but the renovations make a workout worth the wait...
...that is not my most unsettling secret.” He continues to tell us about the strange, singing little man who dresses up as a muskrat that is a result of their union. The plot thickens when this little man impregnates a woman who is living in an iron lung and helps spawn four talking puppies. The story ends when the narrator finds these four puppies and tells us that he has finally found a family. This surreal story is told in such a terse, direct way that one begins to forget that there anything unusual about...
...power is being marshaled to hit countries other than Afghanistan - some U.S. officials, notably deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, are reportedly pushing hard for strikes against suspected terrorist facilities in Iraq and in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. But unless Washington is able to show its allies cast-iron evidence of direct involvement of any state in the September 11 attacks, air strikes on third countries remain an unlikely scenario because they could easily alienate the Arab allies whose intelligence support remains the critical factor in the coalition's ability to destroy Bin Laden's networks. Bush administration hawks...
...wars get the rhetoric they deserve? Maybe so. The Civil War yielded the Gettysburg Address and the Cold War Churchill?s Iron Curtain address. Sometimes, though, the rhetoric sails beyond the cause. Shakespeare?s Agincourt speech - "We happy few, we band of brothers" - celebrated what was, after all, a stupid battle. This is a just war - the very definition of a just war, at least in its conception. So far, its rhetoric is right...