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After 9/11, Bush reorganized his entire presidency around the war on terrorism, and he has not looked back. He has launched two wars, sent special-forces teams to at least half a dozen other countries, pumped billions into old spy networks and new unmanned weapons, and engineered the biggest reorganization of government since the cold war by creating the Department of Homeland Security. At home, he has signed legislation granting sweeping new powers to the Justice Department and other law-enforcement agencies. Overseas, he has authorized a new military doctrine that abandons deterrence for pre-emptive action. The government...
Until recently, getting even that 10% was impossible. Users were hidden behind the long strings of numbers that represent Internet addresses. Only network administrators knew who had been assigned which Internet address, and they were reluctant to share. All that changed in February, when a federal judge ordered Verizon to turn over to RIAA the name of an alleged music pirate. That opened the floodgates. Last week the Federal District courthouse in Washington had to hire extra clerks just to deal with music-industry litigation...
...immature but potentially lucrative market. To keep brand awareness up when it returns to Britain, the team has negotiated an agreement with the New York YankeeNets LLC, parent of the baseball team and basketball's New Jersey Nets, to carry Man U's games on the company's yes network and use each other's distribution outlets to sell merchandise...
...bird entrails, but if they could really see into the future, they'd be so rich they wouldn't have to tell fortunes for a living. But here's a sure thing: the future's big business. Just ask Peter Schwartz. As chairman of the California-based Global Business Network, a "scenario planning" firm advising corporations and governments, it's Schwartz's job to know what's around the corner. Building on his experience as head of Royal Dutch/Shell's Group Planning unit in the 1980s, Schwartz, 56, charts inevitabilities and uncertainties for investors and politicians grappling with long-term...
...Besides the possibility of the Prague encounter, the claim of an Iraq-bin Laden link rest on three pillars: The fact that "bin Laden associate" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who runs the Islamist terror network suspected of killing a U.S. diplomat in Jordan, had taken shelter in Baghdad after being wounded in Afghanistan; The fact that the Kurdish Islamist group attacking mainstream pro-U.S. Kurdish groups in northeastern Iraq had received cash and training from al-Qaeda; and Iraqi records show that an Iraqi emissary had held a meeting or meetings with bin Laden representatives in Afghanistan...