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...wisps of information his Administration had gathered in the months leading up to Sept. 11. Bush's critics imply that if all the warnings and indications had been pulled together in advance, the President or his aides could have discerned the plot and launched a pre-emptive strike on Osama bin Laden last summer. That is a charge the White House dismisses. But Bush's pre-emptive doctrine assumes that we may never have all the intelligence, we may be able to make only educated guesses about our enemies' arsenals and intentions, and we'll need to rely on wisps...
McDonald's new national ad campaign will revolve around a national "dollar value menu" that will eventually include the Big 'N' Tasty burger, the McChicken sandwich and special sizes of fries, soda, salad and various desserts. It may not strike anyone as anything particularly new, but it will transmit a unified, consistent message about a bargain. By moving away from sporadic deep discounting in favor of a permanent two-tier menu that keeps signature products like the Big Mac at the top, Mickey D's is following the model that Wendy's has successfully used to lure in penny-pinching...
...experienced reader of baseball biographies would know that when Jane Leavy began her book about Sandy Koufax, she was already behind in the count. Strike one: most baseball biographies are about as interesting as foul balls. Strike two: in the 36 years since he last threw his atomic fastball, Koufax has accommodated the intrusions of reporters about as frequently as he used to accommodate opposing hitters...
...aslei*Aep, but since last Sept. 11, its Counter-Terrorism Center has doubled its manpower. Fearing he was not getting enough creativity from his spooks, CIA Director George Tenet set up a "red cell" after 9/11, with a dozen free thinkers who dream up outlandish ways bin Laden might strike. The red cell has written some unusual papers for Tenet. One, for example, was titled "View from the Cave" and has bin Laden speaking in the first person (or as the cell envisions him doing so) and musing about Sept. 11 and his next attack...
...hard enough to organize a pre-emptive war with midterm elections looming and the stock market swooning and close allies refusing to participate. So the first-strike hard-liners in the Bush Administration must have found it hard to swallow when Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking on a video conference call with the vacationing President in Texas last month, argued for the need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options...