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...Overnight, his speech sparked a media firestorm that played to the basest fears of Americans swept up in a frightening cold war and triggered loyalty oaths, blacklists and personal betrayals that cost an estimated 10,000 Americans their jobs and some shattered innocents their lives. In 1954 he turned his bullying on the U.S. Army in widely watched television hearings that ultimately exposed McCarthy for the fraudulent demagogue he was. He died a broken alcoholic three years later, but his name remains synonymous with the most reviled style of American politics. --By Johanna McGeary
...Oscars: Martin Luther King in 1968, the attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981. Otherwise, the show must go on, especially when it's usually the year's highest-rated entertainment program (though the 2002 blast was the lowest-rated in the Academy's 50-year TV history, and overnight stats suggest that last night's rating was even worse...
...East Java may have seen enough of Inul, but Jakarta was about to feel her heat. In January, Inul came to Jakarta and performed on Warung Tojedo, a national television program. Virtually overnight, Inulmania swept Indonesia, and within weeks, Inul was bumping and grinding on the cover of major national magazines and appearing on television more often than the country's President. Inul's concert fees rose dramatically, to anywhere from $1,100 to $1,700 per show. TV programs in which she appeared consistently drew 14 share points, well above the norm for music shows. Indonesians snapped up copies...
...There are definitely some sleeper cells out there." As the Davao bombing demonstrated, the terrorists are hardly sleeping. Mayor Duterte, who almost completely eradicated street crime and drug dealing by meting out summary justice to ne'er-do-wells, says the tragedy at the airport has made him an overnight convert to U.S. President George W. Bush's belligerent approach to terrorism. Indeed, Duterte says he would be delighted to have G.I.s come in to take the terrorists on: "I was always against the Americans coming in. Now I'm welcoming them with open arms...
When top officials at the FBI arrived for work last week, they had reason to feel even more anxious than usual. Beginning each day before dawn, FBI Director Robert Mueller and his top aides huddled on the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, reviewing overnight intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world. Taken together, the reports suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks: al-Qaeda operatives, in the words of a senior U.S. official, "are in the execution phase of some of their operations." The intelligence sources couldn't pinpoint the kind...