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...Interrogators in the past had routinely used torture," says Beyer. "Now that they may be put on trial, they?re more likely to first consider the context and the consequences." But even though the perpetrators of last weekend?s failed car bombings turned out to be Israeli Arabs, the main terrorist threat comes from Hamas supporters inside the Palestinian territories. Good thing for Israel, then, that there are fewer restraints on the Palestinian security police...
...reform coalition is a fragile one, which may be tested by several proposed compromises. One would ban soft money but drop the other main provision of the bills, restrictions on "issue ads." These ads, run by the parties and by outside groups, usually stop just shy of telling voters to support or oppose a candidate, thus escaping most election-law oversight. This week, for instance, the conservative Americans for Tax Reform is running a $4.2 million televised ad campaign touting the Republicans' tax bill in seven states with vulnerable G.O.P. Senators, and other groups are running ads targeting legislators...
...where majority leader Trent Lott has promised that a bill co-sponsored by McCain and Democrat Russ Feingold will be voted on by Oct. 12. The measure got 52 votes last year, a majority but well short of the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster mounted by their main foe, Republican Mitch McConnell...
...leaping into the employment void, imagining rich opportunities everywhere. The quit rate, a measure of those who voluntarily left their most recent job, is at 14.5%, the highest in a decade. Even among those schooled in risk management, hotshot M.B.A.s who previously would have headed to Wall Street or Main Street, there is a predilection to spurn Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble in order to take a flyer on striking it rich quickly in dot.com land. "I didn't want someone in 20 years to ask me where I was when the Internet took off," says Greg Schoeny, a recent...
...companies "are going to reshape the entire economy," says Charles Finnie of Volpe Brown Whelan & Co., an investment-banking firm based in San Francisco. "It's not unlikely that Mr. Greenspan will be sitting in front of Congress in the next couple of years saying one of the main reasons inflation is dead is the B2B Internet companies...