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...current deputy, Roy Blunt of Missouri, to succeed him as whip. Some House Republicans are balking at giving the hard-line DeLay so large a power base. At least seven other Republicans are considering a run for the No. 3 spot. "People really like Blunt," says a key G.O.P. strategist, "but this isn't about...
...reason for the higher spread is that we're in a recession and junk-bond default rates have been rising well beyond the average 3.5% a year. Nearly 1 in 10 junk-bond issues has stopped paying interest, and Martin Fridson, chief high-yield strategist at Merrill Lynch, predicts the rate will rise further next year--probably narrowly topping the record default rate of 10.3%, in 1991. But that will be the worst of it, he says, and he notes that "the last time we had record default rates, we had record returns...
...participants talk about their concerns rather than respond to questions--suggest that Americans see the relationship between security and freedom not as a clash of absolutes but as a balance of values, both of which are important to them. "People raise the concern on their own," an influential Democratic strategist told TIME. "It's very much in the context of 'If we become like them, they...
...strike nailed its target: on Friday, Rumsfeld said he had seen "authoritative reports" that the U.S. had killed Atef, al-Qaeda's military chief. Atef had intimate ties to bin Laden through his daughter's marriage to bin Laden's son and was seen as the cold-blooded strategist charged with carrying out bin Laden's deadly visions. As the mastermind of the ambush of the Army Rangers in Somalia in 1993, the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the Sept. 11 airline attacks, Atef was responsible for more than 5,000 deaths. American commanders said his elimination...
...Molly Rudberg was eight, her parents divorced, leaving her with an ache for a father who was so often absent when she needed him most. "Many weekends were missed, as well as prom nights, homecoming dances, soccer games, evenings of homework or just simple advice," says the Chicago marketing strategist. "I finally threw in the towel when he couldn't make it to my older sister's high school graduation because he had to be overseas." Though father and daughter wound up living just four blocks apart, for years Molly couldn't bring herself to reach out. Soon after Sept...