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...Making of a Scandal Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was not "The Man Who Bought Washington," as your headline said [Jan. 16]. No one can raise enough money to do that. In my 23 years of staff work in the U.S. House of Representatives, I never knew of a member who could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person-a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen-we could accept...
Even Russia and China, with economic ties to Tehran, now seem convinced that it may all add up to a nuclear-weapons program. Rice won those countries' support at a dinner in London last week, hosted by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. "She made the argument," says U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, "that we all have an interest in not introducing another nuclear power into the Mideast...
...seen this movie a dozen times. In Firewall, of course, it's 2006, and it is not cumbersome old cash the bad guys are looking for. They want electronic transfers. This means that their banker-victim is not a middle manager but Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford), the top executive who installed and maintains the institution's impenetrable security system. It also means that there's a whole lot of not very cinematic hacking--lots of numbers whizzing across computer screens--allowing our minds to wander into realms a well-crafted suspense movie would never let them explore...
...JACK SHAFER Media critic, Slate...
...unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a peace initiative need to think again. Yes, he was pragmatic and confronted extremist Jewish settlers; however, he did not demonstrate enough of the goodwill needed to win over the Palestinians. Saleh A. Mubarak Seffner, Florida, U.S. The Making of a Scandal Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was not "The Man Who Bought Washington," as your headline said [Jan. 16]. No one can raise enough money to do that. In my 23 years of staff work in the U.S. House of Representatives, I never knew of a member who could be bought. But there were always...