Word: postal
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...everybody finds himself caught on the frontlines. The Commander in Chief alternated between private briefings on the progress in Kandahar and public statements that "I don't have anthrax." Vice President Dick Cheney was coordinating the battle and learning that his key staff members were on Cipro. When two postal workers died, Bush privately told people that he considered them casualties of war, just like the Rangers who had perished in Pakistan a few days before. Both wars became simultaneously more difficult and more disturbing, as the generals acknowledged that the Taliban was a tougher enemy than they had thought...
...know that? They must have tested him, but they're not testing us." People understand that there are some things health officials don't know, and others that they can't say. But the failure to protect mailmen as vigilantly as anchormen and Congressmen looked negligent on its face. Postal workers were furious that congressional aides--and even Capitol police dogs--who might have been exposed to the Daschle letter received immediate treatment, while mail handlers were left in the dark for days. But in fact some congressional aides shared their complaint. An aide says neither...
...awful truth about hunting for a serial killer is that the most important clues usually come at the expense of more lives. Last week the odious spores managed to kill the messengers before they even knew what ailed them. But postal workers Joseph Curseen Jr., 47, and Thomas Morris Jr., 53, still delivered the message. Think bigger, Curseen and Morris told us. The only thing more elusive than the terrorists are the microscopic weapons they have unleashed. The baby-powder- like substance in the letter opened on Capitol Hill on Oct. 15 does not respect laws and traditions such...
...until last week, the patchwork of government agencies scrambling to hold hands and surround the bad guys did what it has always done. The FBI has been keeping secrets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been waiting for someone to get sick before intervening. And the U.S. Postal Service has been delivering the mail and enraging its employees. Just like old times. A close look at the sequence of events leading up to Curseen's and Morris's deaths reveals several points at which authorities could have recognized the risk to postal workers and taken action...
Likewise, before and after the anthrax scares, 800,000 U.S. postal employees worked at a place infamous for turning people into maniacs. And the African-American citizens of the Washington area still live and sort mail in the shadow of the largely white U.S. Capitol, which has long inhabited a cleaner and safer parallel universe...