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...House at 1:25am— right on schedule. With Missy Elliot’s “Get Your Freak On” blasting from the radio, our friendly research team exited the shuttle as another eager group of night-outers hopped on. The sounds of chattering and rank smell of vodka dissipated into the cool evening air as the shuttle bus, Massachusetts tag #1587, bumped down Mill Street for another round of pick...
...that the PFLP will mind. The left-wing faction had traditionally opposed the Oslo peace process, and like many of Arafat's own rank and file they reject his current cease-fire and renewed negotiations with Israel. Unlike Islamic Jihad and Hamas who may be inclined right now to act in sympathy with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, the PFLP is a secular leftist group traditionally aligned with Syria. The killing of their leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by an Israeli missile fired into his office in August had sparked widespread Palestinian fury and vows of vengeance. And by provoking...
...Saud rule like the challenge posed by the latest generation of Islamic militants. While bin Laden never concentrated on building a political organization, he is loosely connected to like-minded comrades inside the kingdom, from fellow veterans of the Afghan war to a network of fiery young mid-rank clerics who share his views on fighting America and destroying Israel. It was the upshot of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait that ignited their anger. King Fahd's agreement to act as host to U.S. troops, bin Laden charged, revealed the al Sauds' inability to defend the kingdom and its unholy...
...bosses are starting to think their employees might be the best weapon in the war against health-care inflation. Much as 401(k) savings plans have supplanted old-fashioned guaranteed pensions, such consumer-driven health plans aim to shift the responsibility--and risk--of employer health insurance to the rank and file. "We've taught people that when they put down a $10 bill and an HMO card, they're entitled to everything," says Lee Newcomer, a managed-care veteran and now chief medical officer at benefits start-up Vivius. "If you give consumers a system indifferent to price, they...
...Members of the House and Senate leadership have cars, drivers and safe houses to go to (albeit minus spouses) in emergencies. But everyone else is on their own, which is why the rank and file suffer from White House envy. Every time one congressman hears that Vice President Dick Cheney is off in a secure location, he fumes, "What are we, chopped liver...