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...addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes, he said, "it seems we share a continent but not a country." George W. Bush's promise to restore honor to the office could not be kept just by wearing his tie every day or learning a crisp salute. A leap of faith is not something that can be faked or borrowed or bought. A man who always said he trusted his team would have to trust himself even more; a man with no use for alliances would have to build the biggest, unlikeliest one ever. And when the enemy honors...
...Tenet was urging the President to make a huge leap of faith--to combat America's new enemy by waging a new kind of war. Tenet's plan: deploy CIA officers and special-ops commandos to aid Afghan opposition forces on the ground while warplanes drop bombs from the sky; collaborate with other intelligence services around the world to bust up terrorist cells with tips from the CIA's spies; and do it all without allowing a Vietnam-style gradual escalation of U.S. military involvement. This would be a war fought by others, with the U.S. role both obvious...
...addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes, he said, "it seems we share a continent but not a country." George W. Bush's promise to restore honor to the office could not be kept just by wearing his tie every day or learning a crisp salute. A leap of faith is not something that can be faked or borrowed or bought. A man who always said he trusted his team would have to trust himself even more; a man with no use for alliances would have to build the biggest, unlikeliest one ever. And when the enemy honors...
...reform bill finally made it out of conference committee after five months of often bitter negotiations, three of the bill's original architects, Democratic senators Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, took a few minutes to gloat. Over danishes and coffee they called the bill "revolutionary," "a quantum leap" and "the real thing." Later in the day, President Bush pronounced the reforms "historic" and Ohio Republican John Boehner, who ushered the bill through the House, proclaimed, "These landmark reforms will bring purpose to a federal law that has lost its focus and never met its promise...
...barrage against its facilities made such action impossible. European and U.N. diplomats are insisting that the only way for the Palestinian leader to save his political hide is to crack down hard on Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that may be wishful thinking, now. It would take an extraordinary leap of the imagination to picture a leader whose epic powerlessness in the face of Sharon is being underlined to his own people on an hourly basis - Arafat is holed up in Ramallah unable to move, with Israeli tanks literally on his doorstep - persuading his security forces to round up fellow...