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...terrorism threat level to orange until he checked with his boss, Tom Ridge, Townsend cut him off. "I need to know now," snapped George W. Bush's top adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security. "The President will be calling, and I have to have an answer." When Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, phoned Townsend earlier this year to complain that the Coast Guard was dragging its feet on sending him an officer as a temporary adviser, she "made some profane remark," he says, "and the next thing I knew the red tape...
...Peter Arkle is a freelance illustrator. He has lived in New York City for 10 years
...shores of Lake Wobegon (they give us special rates to compensate for the drought that annually afflicts our profession). This means we're much too busy to catch Lassie as she limps homeward one more time this weekend - especially since we have been given to understand that Peter O'Toole is not playing the dog. This does not mean, though, that we are insensible to the demand for instant nostalgia, with a dash of instant analysis thrown...
...four years, head coach Peter Brand has turned a program that was once an Ivy League doormat into what is looking like a national powerhouse...
...Peter DeBlieux sees them too at a clinic run by Charity Hospital out of an abandoned - and recently termite-infested - Lord & Taylor store in downtown New Orleans. They are middle-class people and professionals who once had secure jobs, nice homes and lots of insurance. Now they come for the free care, complaining of a bad back or a general weakness, then end up "losing it," he says, sobbing uncontrollably about lives that have become marathons of stress. One bad day can set them off. "Nobody has emotional reserves these days...