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...DeLay visited Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri - site of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain " speech 56 years earlier - to give an impassioned defense of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military offensive against the Palestinians. Yasir Arafat is "completely untrustworthy," DeLay thundered. Instead of trying to be a neutral broker in the deadly conflict, George Bush should "support Israel as they dismantle the Palestinian leadership that foments violence and fosters hate." DeLay sent White House aides a copy of the Missouri speech before he delivered it. They gulped when they read it, but were grateful the House Whip didn...
...spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always been the favorite to actually survive the trip and work a genuine change upon the American psyche. So unorthodox is Zen in its very orthodoxy, so hyperdistilled and culturally neutral are its tenets (when it admits to having any at all), that it is the obvious candidate for a metaspirituality immune to the corruptions that always seem to end up plaguing religious institutions and their all-too-human members...
...defended the voucher program Friday, saying the vouchers are “neutral aid, so [they] shouldn’t be considered unconstitutional...
...meantime, the interest-rate cycle has turned. Last week the Fed declared itself officially out of the stimulus game, returning its interest-rate bias to neutral after 11 straight cuts and readying the markets for a return to - gasp - inflation watch. Greenspan won't be intervening in this economy again until it's time to slow it down, and the bond markets aren't waiting, pushing up market interest rates on those very fears. The window of opportunity that gave consumers most of their extra 2001 spending power - great mortgage-refinancing deals and low-interest rate loans - is closing fast...
Businesses working in troubled regions often develop relationships with more elements of a country's society, including those that may be hostile to the government, than does the CIA. To stay neutral in a conflict, some businesses even risk irritating their host governments by hiring members of rebel groups. The CIA, as Badolato puts it, "doesn't stay in with the outs." A formal agreement between the U.S. and Britain prevents the two from spying in each other's country, Baer says. That means the U.S. could not have useful operatives in London mosques, and the British just...