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...forum for Bush's critics, who say he has tossed aside fiscal discipline to give handouts to the wealthy. Administration officials scoff. Says a senior aide: "Show me somewhere in history where someone has paid a political price for deficits." That's exactly the kind of talk that could spook the bond markets. So while it's easy to write off Lindsey and O'Neill as bunglers, they may not be such an easy act to follow until the Bush team gets the sound track right. --With reporting by Michael Duffy and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...next strike might come. Governments from Britain to Australia had the impossible task of warning citizens about the danger while urging them to live normally. German authorities debated how to improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked...
...just 90 minutes; the remake is nearly two hours, with a trawler of new red herrings introduced but little value added. And though Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) carries the film in the role originated by Nanako Ma-tsushima, she can't single-handedly lift it beyond a stale spook sonata...
...invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, because people refuse...
...enforced no-fly zone established after the Gulf War. Intelligence officials told Time that while Baghdad is aware of their presence, there's no clear evidence that Saddam has made substantive contact with them. "The al-Qaeda people are not official guests of the Iraqi government," says a senior spook. "There's no indication of that...