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Even though the feared attacks failed to materialize, the anxieties didn't subside. Inside the FBI, fears of a devastating attack are as high as they've been in months, in part because of the possibility that "other tools are in play"--meaning biological and chemical weapons. A senior Administration...
SUV profits have been crucial to the auto industry's rebounding economic performance over the past few years. That has meant more jobs not only in Michigan but in other states that produce SUV components. Which is partly why SUVs live in a kind of unprickable bubble in Washington. SUVs...
Your article pointed out that the CIA's participation in installing repressive regimes in Iran, Guatemala and Chile "ended up doing more damage in the long run to U.S. foreign policy." But more important, as a direct result of CIA intervention in foreign countries, despotic dictators were given the power...
Piot and others pointed to Anglo American, a South African mining company, as a firm that’s already having “a major, direct impact” on the treatment of AIDS in people already infected.
Feinstein praised the Ivy League model of athletics for putting the interests of student-athletes first and staving off the forces of corruption he said have hurt much of the NCAA. He pointed to corporate greed as the driving force behind the for-profit professionalization of amateur athletics and cited...