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There are some serious people in the Northern Alliance, however, and their picture of the Taliban is more sobering. These people--intelligence officers, security officials and spies--do not think the Taliban resistance in Kabul will collapse at the first U.S. salvo. A Northern Alliance fighter who has viewed the Taliban up close is Saif, a tense, nervy man in his 30s who is a spy for one of the alliance commanders. When he was interviewed last week, he had just spent 10 days or so in Kabul assessing Taliban strength...
...Budget, releases its budget numbers, which are expected to confirm the hair?s-breadth $1 billion non-Social-Security surplus that the OMB?s number-crunchers salvaged with some fancy accounting tricks last week. (Bush gives a working-vacation preview from Missouri on Tuesday, which will be a garbled salvo to the Democrats trying to sacrifice his tax cut on the surplus altar...
...days ago, Bill Clinton opened up shop in Harlem, and gave a speech so buoyant and well-received it seemed like the first salvo in a grass-roots campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour...
...recent star-studded premiere was the final, pre-opening salvo of the Walt Disney Co.'s months-long campaign to sell Japan on the idea that Pearl Harbor is merely a love story and not a fateful chapter in a misguided war effort. Japanese ads for the movie insist, "the world awaits with bated breath." The world probably doesn't much care, but Disney is using its formidable marketing resources to convince Japanese moviegoers they should. After a critical drubbing and a disappointing box office in the U.S., Disney is hoping to rake in close to $100 million...
...Gore's salvo Wednesday night was timed perfectly, not just because it interrupted the network news, but because he had a pretty darn good idea that the Floriday Supreme Court would do exactly what it did this afternoon: approve the continuation of the hand-count. Which is exactly what Palm Beach County started doing within minutes of the ruling. First move to Gore...