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...last thing Washington needs on the eve of an Iraq war is another large-scale Israeli military operation in Palestinian cities to set the Arab street alight. Last year, following a Passover terror attack that killed 29 Israelis, Sharon launched "Operation Defensive Shield," which involved reoccupying all of the West Bank's major Palestinian population centers. The resulting Arab outraged sabotaged the efforts of Vice President Cheney, then on a tour of the region to win Arab support for invading Iraq, and prompted the administration to send Secretary of State Powell to the region on a peace mission whose half...
...stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis of confidence in American...
...years from retirement and her family's sole breadwinner, she tacked on two sentences of self-preservation at the last minute, asking for federal whistle-blower protection. At the time, she did not know exactly what it was--nor that the legislation offered FBI employees a weak shield. The next day, in Washington, she dropped the memo off with receptionists for FBI director Robert Mueller and two members of the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Surely, they were too far above the fray to want to punish her. She had no appointments; she just wandered around until she found their offices...
...seeped onto his property, he tried to get the Rumsey Indians to deal with the problem. Recently the waste-water drainage slowed when the tribe relined a sewage-holding pond, but tribal officials will not talk to him about any damage to his property. "They use sovereignty as a shield," he says...
More so than the anti-missile defense shield or the Department of Homeland Security, Ronald’s diplomacy protects our country. Yet no one has suggested a fast-food analogue to the Air Transportation Stabilization Board. The airlines aren’t the only ones affected by terrorist attacks. McDonald’s has long been the victim of anti-American violence...