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...last week horrible banging and clanking sounds could be heard all around the White House: the message machine was throwing a rod or perhaps three. First, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer blamed Bill Clinton for unintentionally spurring violence in the Middle East, saying "in an attempt to shoot the moon and get nothing, more violence resulted." That Fleischer, who normally mouths the daily message with well-practiced ease, was the one who caused the machine to seize up came as a surprise to top Administration officials. Within an hour, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card...
...Benjamin's younger brother Ramon, one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives, whose enthusiasm for torture and mass murder did much to consolidate the family's hold over the lucrative Tijuana smuggling corridor. Arellano-Felix confirmed to the Mexican military officers that Ramon, had died in a shoot-out with authorities in Mazatlan on Feb. 10. The body was cremated but Hutchinson said today the DEA still hoped to use DNA evidence to confirm that the remains were indeed Ramon...
...President Clinton's failed push for a final peace deal at Camp David helped spark the intifada actually offer some insight into Bush administration thinking. Although Fleischer was later forced by administration higher-ups to retract his statement that "You can make the case that in an attempt to shoot the moon and get nothing, more violence resulted," the press secretary doesn't make this stuff up on the fly. His comment not only tracks with the Bush administration's own hands-off approach to the Middle East conflict; it's a sharper reiteration of a point President Bush made...
Last weekend I was poised on the top of a mountain range, about to shoot down half a mile of icy slush on skis badly in need of sharpening, and a question occurred to me: does absence really make the heart grow fonder? My family took off a few days to do some much-needed bonding on the slopes of the Sunday River Ski Mountain in central Maine, and I made the painful decision to forsake life in Cambridge for a short while. As I skidded and slalomed down the trail on Saturday morning, I was surprised to watch...
...meeting breaks up when Bono leaves for a photo shoot. Driving across Los Angeles, he discusses Jones' notion of a melody line. "What we're all on about is: Africa. Seventy percent of the problem of HIV/AIDS is in Africa. We're talking about the continent bursting into flames while we stand around with watering cans. That's our one idea. But the closer you get to the policymakers, you need specificity, and you need to know what you're talking about. I'd go in and talk about debt relief, debt relief, debt relief, and people would...