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...another worker that suddenly he was "on the front line" in this new war. Bomb sniffing dogs, frequent pass checks, new traffic barriers. Vulnerable offices along a side street have been moved within the White House complex, the never-ending stream of 5,000 daily tourists cut off because the security staff was stretched too thin to handle them, and aides are scrambling to find office space for Tom Ridge, the new Homeland Security czar, a title right out of World...
...West Bank and Gaza, mounting 16 incursions into Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the week following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Sharon's change of heart - allowing the meeting to go ahead and avoiding Israeli-initiated military action against the Palestinians - came after a constant stream of phone calls from the Bush administration urging him to allow the talks to proceed...
...scene of the dorms’ communal showers have been co-opted by some first-years looking to get freaky. Couples have decided it’s OK to walk into a bathroom in G-entry, pick a shower stall, and make screachy, sweet love beneath an incessant stream of hot water. Let this be clear...
...stream of blood and pink slips - and the threat it poses to consumer confidence and spending - finally drying up? The overall totals are still scary - 1.12 million layoff announcements is still 83 percent more than at this time last year, and 3.3 million people filing for continued unemployment claims is the most since this time in 1992, when there was a recession on. And they?re still rising - the four-week rolling claims average edged up to 398,000 this week from 394,500, and the unemployment number for August, due out Friday, is expected to tick up again...
...Beijing in search of diplomatic progress, but politically paralyzed to take the actions against the Islamists and other militants that such progress would require. Unlike Arafat, many of those militants appear to have a clear strategy - the one perfected by Hezbollah in Lebanon, of inflicting a slow but steady stream of casualties on the Israelis through guerrilla warfare and terror strikes in the hope of turning Israeli public opinion against the occupation. And today that strategy, rather than Arafat's diplomacy, tends to hold sway on the Palestinian street...