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...network for more. Unable to travel together because of scheduling conflicts, they carved the afflicted region into two and tried to cover as much ground separately as they could. They pleaded with Governors and mayors for ideas and then swapped what they heard by phone and e-mail. By mid-September, both men were, in Card's phrase, "very, very hands on, down in the weeds," more excited and enthused than their aides had seen them in months...
...mid-January 2005, President Bush declared that the 2004 election had been his "accountability moment." He spoke a bit too soon. The "moment," it turned out, lasted for the following 12 months. The President didn't see it coming. And who could blame him? For more than three years after 9/11, the American public had given the Administration, and indeed many authority figures, the benefit of the doubt. We were at war, even in mortal danger. Trust was essential. The bigwigs kept assuring us they knew what they were doing. And so most of us went along...
...minutes also reveal sharp disapproval of the perceived bureaucratization of the FAS and University administrations. In several meetings, chairs pointed to new mid-level administrative positions as adding an unnecessary degree of separation between departments and top decision-makers...
...arrested had launched a spree of armed robberies to finance the network's underground work; a raid of the group's suspected arms cache turned up explosives, a dozen detonators, pistols and assault rifles. "We hadn't seen Islamists using such brazen crime to finance the cause since the mid-1990s," the counterterrorism official says. "This return to early methods may mean this group wanted to move ahead far faster with an attack than we normally...
...Life in Progress, Black traces a career in mid-trajectory, dishing out vituperation by the spoonful. An iconoclast and conservative ideologue seemingly at birth, Black had a privileged Toronto upbringing-son of a capitalist who headed a profitable brewery-that was 'honorable and unexceptionable, like so much of Canada' ... In the late '70s, Black found his true calling as a Toronto financier. He stitched his family holdings into a conglomerate with interests in mining, retailing and oil as well as journalism. He revels in the access he enjoyed to Canada's 'elites,' even as he gives some of his dinner...