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...Nevertheless, when the interrogators' report reached official Washington overnight Wednesday it prompted a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush appointees, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA director George Tenet and homeland security director Tom Ridge, as well as senior career officials at the Pentagon, FBI and CIA. (FBI director Bob Mueller was in San Francisco; executive assistant director Dale Watson and counter-terrorism division chief Pat D'Amuro represented the FBI at the White House sessions...
...that the Brits, when they are at the top of their game, can't still hit one out of the park. Howard Davies' masterly production of The Iceman Cometh a couple of seasons ago revitalized the Eugene O'Neill war-horse for a new generation. Former National Theatre director Richard Eyre is currently presenting a powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, with a ferocious starring performance by Irishman Liam Neeson...
...Bush Administration, led by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, was wildly unenthusiastic about pressuring offshore havens--until Sept. 11 brought new impetus to tracking down terrorists' funds. Until this year, Republican lawmakers had been cutting the IRS budget since the mid-'90s. There are about 5,000 fewer auditors and collectors than there were in 1995, meaning your chances of being audited this year are about 1 in 173. Last year the service conducted 732,000 audits, down from 1.9 million in 1996. Enforcement actions including property seizures dropped from 3.5 million in 1995 to 875,800 last year...
...Doubt tunes, a husband looking up recipes for ribs--networking is the way to go. "The No. 1 reason why home users are networking is to share broadband," says Chris Amori, the owner of Amori Network Solutions, based in North Potomac, Md., and the expert who came to O'Neill's rescue. In-Stat, a market-research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz., expects the number of home networks in North America to jump to 9.8 million by year-end, up from 4.2 million at the end of 2000, as broadband services become more widely available and networking products get cheaper...
...want to network, perhaps it's best just to leave your broadband provider out of it. O'Neill says her high-speed cable operator didn't offer any network support yet wanted to sell her IP addresses. "That," she says, "is a dead end." The companies that win the competition to network America's homes will be the ones that offer something truly useful or entertaining in return for all those extra charges...