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That one still applies. In seven months as Pentagon chief, Rumsfeld has managed to spook the military, alienate defense contractors, mobilize much of Capitol Hill against him--and even make some in the White House question his toughness. It's usually a Democrat who puts the Pentagon on a wartime footing, but Rumsfeld, 69, is an armor-plated Republican and a military man to boot (he served as a Navy pilot). He has stirred up these problems by launching a much needed but oddly secretive review of the U.S. military that until last week threatened to sink ships, ground planes...
...Sanford" role partly on the strength of his only other dramatic appearance ? as a junkman in the 1970 "Cotton Comes to Harlem." He and Co-Star Demond Wilson now work with "Sanford's" Producer and Chief Writer Aaron Ruben, who is white, to "translate the scripts into spook," as Foxx puts it. "The writers are beginning to learn black is another language." (Meantime, Ruben is training black writers for the show...
...Texas Air Force facing lawsuits over complaints that overflights spook cattle...
...more than $200 million in compromised intelligence programs that must now be replaced. The tab for one supersecret program that tapped Russian communications alone could top $100 million. LOUIS FREEH's FBI had failed to use a standard counterintelligence technique known as mail cover on the Russian spook who ran Hanssen. The technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like the false return addresses Hanssen used, trigger an investigation. The FBI's failure to use mail cover might have killed another man's career, but nobody surfs...
...would Bush be willing to spook the economy he's about to inherit? For starters, he needs to spread the idea that if things get tight for a while, the problem started before he took office. The last recession occurred during his father's presidency. He doesn't want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, "A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against...