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...will, right? Considering that the Big Bug now seems to be swirling around New York with unsettling regularity - not to mention getting mailed there from New Jersey, where a good portion of the displaced financial community fled after the planes hit - the big-money investors took it pretty well. All this meant was that now no one would open the mail of staffer-drenched folks like Tom Brokaw and Pataki - financial types do it all by computer anyway - and it?s not as if the Post Office was ever a good investment...
Many ISI men harbor bitterness too, over the way the U.S. built them up as a useful tool in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, then turned away when the war ended. A sizable portion of ISI rank and file embraces Islamic fundamentalism, and even if the top brass promise help, spooks on the ground may thwart them by withholding information or spreading disinformation. "The ISI has excellent intelligence about bin Laden," says a former Defense specialist on the region. "I find it doubtful they will give...
...last long. A scheduling meeting last week had just got under way when the phone rang. "I'll be there right away, Sir," said Cheney, leaving for the Oval Office without a word. "What are we, chopped liver?" joked one of his abandoned aides. When Bush rewrote a portion of his Sept. 20 address to Congress, re-framing the Administration's position on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, he made sure an aide called Cheney to run it by him. More often than not, the last question Bush asks before making a decision is, "What do you think...
Unlike a traditional, narrowly defined set of health benefits, this plan lets employees spend a portion of their allotted health dollars--usually around $1,000 to $2,000 a year--as they see fit. They can spend it on the deductible of a basic indemnity policy or opt for alternative medicine; if they don't use up their allocation before the end of one year, they can roll it over to the next. At best, Stevens guessed, perhaps an adventurous 10% to 15% of workers would take the leap; in the end, though, more than three-quarters signed...
GSAS students pay for a large portion of their tuition and other expenses through employment, which usually means being a teaching fellow. It follows then that any increase in aid would lessen the incentive for graduate students to teach undergraduates...