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State Republican Party leaders and White House officials have in recent weeks sought to deflect political fallout from the controversy surrounding the collapse of Enron and WorldCom and the rash of high profile earnings restatements. Several have argued that problems with lax oversight began during the Clinton administration, pointing out that many of Enron’s questionable deals occurred during the 1990s...
...White House strategy of distancing the President from FBI problems seems to be working. Though the rash of disclosures about missed clues before Sept. 11 and the warnings about future attacks have soured the public view of the war's progress, Bush has not suffered. Last week a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 41% of Americans believe the U.S. is winning the war on terror, down from 66% in January. Yet 77% of Americans say they approve of Bush's job as Commander in Chief. As long as new disclosures are limited, the White House does not see FBI troubles...
Harvard’s sophomores and juniors, already battle-tested by a 2001 season that had been marred by a rash of injuries and other problems, were also a source of strength and guidance...
...Even as the Afghan war winds down, U.S. bases are spreading like a rash across the soft Islamic underbelly of the former Soviet Union. U.S. officials say the new bases are "expeditionary," meaning their U.S. presence won't be constant or permanent. Some support only small contingents of special forces troops, while others - like this one just outside Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek - are substantial. The steppes of central Asia - a no-go zone for the U.S. military until last year - could become home to U.S. troops for years to come. Minutes after Rumsfeld arrived here last Friday, an impatient...
...agent, "They stole everything and even raped some of the women." In mid-February there was another report that Dadullah was in Sancharak, the tiny village in the mountains to the south of Mazar. Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, confident that Dadullah was as good as caught, was rash enough to announce on the radio that the former scourge of Mazar would soon be under lock and key. Again, hundreds of his men raced out and again, Dadullah escaped. "We will get him in the end, "says Anwar. "He can't escape- we have spies everywhere...