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Twenty years later, we tapped Morrison for the job of bringing that tragic, pulsating, mythical year into perspective for our first TIME pictorial collector's edition, 1968: The Year That Shaped a Generation. A true child of the '60s, Morrison, now special projects editor, had even planned to spend his honeymoon at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, until his bride-to-be put her foot down. In 1968, he says, "we tried to capture something of the year's amazing, compelling electricity...
...working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Special Operations branch. At any given time, an undercover agent might simultaneously maintain three identities in efforts to deter the illegal killing or trafficking in wildlife. While the $130 million illegal-wildlife market pales in comparison with the billions Americans spend on drugs, undercover wildlife cops find themselves in equally exotic situations. Undercover stings have infiltrated a smuggling ring that exported falcons to Saudi royalty; a backwoods guide service that killed black bears for their gall bladders, which were then exported to Japan as aphrodisiacs; and a renegade group of Native...
...years ago in response to increasing illegal hunting and trafficking in wildlife. Leach, who headed the covert branch for four years before going back into the field, came to wildlife enforcement after a stint as an undercover narcotics agent. An environmentalist, he says, "I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing drug buys." While wildlife work might seem more tranquil than the murderous world of drugs, Leach says wildlife cops often find themselves in the backcountry on their own, while during undercover drug buys, "you generally have lots of backup if things go wrong...
...generous tax rate. Although there is no consensus, most respected economic models challenge these assumptions. A study by the Congressional Budget Office, for example, puts the annual loss in the first year to the Treasury around $4 billion -- or more than six times the amount that Bush proposes to spend on all programs for the homeless...
This chameleon style may be a shrewd defense mechanism, designed to mask the harsh reality that Bush is more constrained than any other President in modern memory. The borrow-and-spend policies that Ronald Reagan presided over have bequeathed to his chosen successor a downsized presidency devoid of the resources to address long neglected domestic problems. The Bush campaign strategists -- with the candidate's active complicity -- burdened the new President with an obdurate stance on taxes. And for all of Bush's conciliatory zeal, Congress remains an enemy camp; no elected Republican President in this century has come into office...