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Cheney retains his influence by holding his tongue. In most larger meetings--of the Cabinet, say, or with congressional leaders--he sits silently at the President's side, rationing his words for maximum impact. "The smaller the meeting, the more he says," says Hughes. Cheney puts it another way: "I save my advice for the President." Cheney has been working hard to help Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell weave together a global alliance against terrorism. His past experience is paying dividends. Last week he spoke with Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar, an old friend from...
...Cheney retains his influence by holding his tongue. In most larger meetings - of the Cabinet, say, or with congressional leaders - he sits silently at the President's side, rationing his words for maximum impact. "The smaller the meeting, the more he says," says Hughes. Cheney puts it another way: "I save my advice for the President." Cheney has been working hard to help Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell weave together a global alliance against terrorism. His past experience is paying dividends. Last week he spoke with Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar, an old friend from...
...would not give his real name - explains his trade. "All it needs is a good network of trustworthy people," he explains. "If today you want to me to arrange a delivery of cash anywhere in the world - Hong Kong, Johannesburg, New York, Paris - it will be done in, maximum, eight hours...
...Force colonel, "was an object lesson to military planners around the globe of the futility of attempting to confront the U.S. symmetrically, that is, with like forces and orthodox tactics." The attacks on the World Trade Center were classic examples of "asymmetric" warfare, using small fanatical teams to inflict maximum psychological damage on a chained Gulliver. And there isn't an army in the rich world that knows, with confidence, how to defeat such a foe. "When you're fighting someone who wants to die," says a Marine colonel, "those old-fashioned rules of war seem rather quaint...
...which is the primary limiting factor of airport traffic. Unfortunately, the situation is similar around the country for many types of infrastructure; our country, largely, was built in the 1930s as a result of the New Deal. About the only area of growth in government investment has been in maximum security prisons...