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...tenure. Indeed, with the presidential election a little more than a year away, only 37% of Americans believe the country is on the right track, according to the latest New York Times/CBS poll. When word spread last week that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was launching a full criminal probe into who had leaked Plame's identity, Democrats immediately raised a public alarm: How could Justice credibly investigate so secretive an Administration, especially when the investigators are led by Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose former paid political consultant Karl Rove was initially accused by Wilson of being the man behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaking With A Vengeance | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...have a clue." The IRS launched an investigation last June into the "scientific validity of the test procedures" used to measure compliance with the minimal standards, but the synfuels credit has enough support in Congress that members have tried (and failed so far) to block the IRS probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Energy Scam | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Robert Todino, 22, of Woburn, Mass., has sent over 100 million spam messages in hopes of locating the materials necessary to build a time machine with which to revisit his childhood, and prevent the implantation of a mind monitoring device that he believes allows secret agents to probe his thoughts...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Minutes' Minutes | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

SPIES AMONG US The espionage probe in Guantanamo Bay raises security questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Oct. 6, 2003 | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...disposition, he found the language to express their religious ecstasies in paint. He also produced a few works of maudlin religiosity. It takes a strong stomach to love his popeyed penitents or some of his more beseeching Virgins. His real-world portraits, among the first in European art to probe psychology, were another matter. Look at his magnificent account of a cardinal who is probably the Grand Inquisitor himself--Nino de Guevara, Spain's Inquisitor General. Armored in his robes, with a mysterious letter dropped at his feet, he unnerves you with a gaze that refuses to meet yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thunderbolts Of Ecstasy | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

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