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...only politician out to give voters increased homeland security. Officials across the country--many of them, like Davis, up for reelection this year--are scrambling to get tough on terror. In all, 46 states are already debating legislation aimed at improving safety or punishing terrorists. But here's the rub: 43 states have declared significant budget shortfalls for fiscal 2002. Congress approved $8.3 billion for homeland security in December, but only $1.5 billion will be parceled out in state grants. Pols who want the glory of fighting terror are going to have to pay for it themselves...
...more inspired by books and literature than I am by other screenplays. If you surround yourself with great stuff, maybe it’ll rub...
...rough sense of Sept. 11. The good guys like Mike saved the day, the evil ones were blotted out, and we all bought F.D.N.Y. HEROES caps and pinned red-white-and-blue ribbons to our lapels to celebrate the victory. But to those who lived that story and now rub up against its shards every day, resolution is nothing more than a mass-marketed myth. Their reality is raw and unending. Fire fighters and police brawl at ground zero. Tales of divorces spawned by Sept. 11 circle around the fire department. Widows squabble with one another over money, and this...
Agnes Chu likes to use her hands. When this frazzled FM reporter showed up at her door, Agnes greeted her with a “how are you doing?” and a warm shoulder rub that made me think we had been friends forever. A laid-back San Diego native, Agnes snuggled cozily on her bed, a few mattresses piled on top of each other without a frame, and began to talk candidly about her work in the VES department...
Intelligence sharing, though more focused than ever in the face of a common recognized foe, remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...