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...year, Washington has been gearing up for a monster fight over filling the first Supreme Court vacancy in 11 years. Instead, the city watched its political generals and foot soldiers put their guns back into their holsters last week. After his meeting with Roberts, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid went so far as to praise the work Roberts had done on behalf of environmental interests in Reid's home state of Nevada. Interest groups, having raised millions in anticipation of war, quickly returned to fighting over Karl Rove. The closest thing to a battle plan that Senate liberals could come...
...attack represents a homicide wave. Second, bodies were severely damaged by massive explosive forces. And finally, coroners are desperate to get things right. After 58 tourists were gunned down in a 1997 attack in Luxor, Egypt, by contrast, some bodies were misidentified and sent to the wrong countries. Andrew Reid, one of two London coroners overseeing the identification process, has warned that it might take weeks for all of the bodies to be recovered and identified. "We understand the distress," Reid said, while stressing the importance of returning "the right victims to the right families." Though London has no experience...
...abortion. "When a friend gets attacked, I don't like it." But Democrats--who blasted the former White House counsel during his Senate confirmation hearings for calling the Geneva convention "quaint," among other things--have also had unexpectedly kind words. "Alberto Gonzales is qualified," declared Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. "He's Attorney General of the United States and a former Texas judge...
...Reid's remarks prompted a rash of phone calls to his office from liberals, exposing a fissure in the party over Gonzales. "For Reid to say that he is acceptable because we confirmed him as Attorney General is wrongheaded," says Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future. Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org insists, "Gonzales should not be a Supreme Court Justice." Still, some party vets contend that Democrats will ultimately back Gonzales, seeing him as a more moderate choice than others Bush could name. "When push comes to shove," says Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, "I think Democrats will find...
Time, of course, works to the terrorists' advantage. The other lesson underscored by the London bombings is that despite losing their command-and-control structures, the terrorists have adjusted. After Richard Reid's foiled attempt to detonate the bomb in his shoe on an American Airlines flight in December 2001, jihadists have mostly avoided hard targets such as planes and government buildings. Instead they attack nightclubs, hotels--and commuter rails. The newer terrorist network has found that even in a war zone like Afghanistan, spending a little on motorcycles and satellite phones can make killing infidels that much easier...