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...force, passing $40 billion in emergency disaster relief, approving a $15 billion bailout for airlines--last week they were back to their old bickering. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle branded the Republicans "obstructionist" for their opposition to airport-security legislation. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy blamed each other for holding up antiterrorism legislation. And House Ways and Means chairman Bill Thomas abruptly postponed a vote in his committee on giving the President new authority to negotiate trade agreements, when it became clear it had inflamed the Democrats. Even some who had normally favored open...
From meeting Patrick M. Lee, you wouldn’t think he realizes that his new restaurant and bar, Red Line, is replacing a famous Harvard Square establishment, the Crimson Sports Grille. But his confidence and nonchalance are the products of success...
...including a provision that would allow the Justice Department to detain immigrants suspected of terrorism indefinitely, in contrast to the current time limit of 48 hours. A coalition of civil libertarians and conservatives suspicious of big government has slowed the bill's progress through Congress. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy told TIME that "the biggest danger is that [terrorists] unravel the constitutional protections we've spent 200 years as a democracy to build." By last Thursday, however, Leahy was on the phone to Ashcroft, suggesting that staff members work through the weekend to iron out the remaining points...
...hype was necessary; the verifiable facts are chilling enough--and, in places, eerily prescient. Take the 1995 closed-door briefing for President Clinton and 400 officials from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Japan by Bill Patrick, former chief of the Army's bioweapons-development program. Patrick described how terrorists--armed with blenders, cheesecloth, garden sprayers and starter bugs mail-ordered from a U.S. germ bank--could spray enough deadly bacteria in the air intakes of the World Trade Center to infect 25,000 people. If that didn't scare anybody then, it will...
...personal safety for granted. Our people must take an active part in the vigilant protection of our country. Civilians must assume roles in our civil defense as block watchers, neighborhood police, campus observers and providers of information to authorities about those who act suspiciously or voice anti-American opinions. PATRICK GRANT New York City...