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...Democrats haven't scored many political points complaining about the president's landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln, but they see opportunity in what Bush said a few hours after he was out of his flight suit: "The tide has turned against al-Qaeda." Just a few days later, the terrorist group carried out coordinated attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, the threat alert level was raised to orange and officials said the chatter among terrorists was as high as before September 11th. On cue, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's right hand man, issued...
Paul Bremer strode into the sweltering Iraqi capital of Baghdad last week, sounding to all the world like the new sheriff in town--albeit one wearing a suit and tie. For a city racked by instability and violence, President Bush's newly appointed civilian chief promised a new, no-nonsense approach to law and order. Referring to the thousands of criminals Saddam Hussein freed before the war, the seasoned diplomat and counterterrorism expert declared, "It's time we put these people back in jail...
...major corn-growing states. Its new rules would step up inspections of biopharms and expand the buffer zone between genetically modified corn and food crops to a mile. But opponents say that's not wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition of 11 environmental groups is filing suit against the Agriculture Department. They want to ban the use of food crops for pharmaceutical uses and restrict the plants to greenhouses. If such measures were enforced, argues Jonathan McIntyre, chief scientist for Monsanto Protein Technologies, "it would set back the industry 12 to 20 years...
...Lithuania and the Czech Republic have been grappling with deflation for four straight months. A Wheeze Of Relief Stocks of tobacco companies lit up after a Florida appeals court overturned a $145 billion judgement against them, ruling that the individuals suing were too diverse to join in a single suit. The damage award, on behalf of about 500,000 smokers, was the largest in U.S. history...
...Democratic contenders have fixed on security as a theme this year. Not just national security but homeland security, financial security, health-care security and so forth. It seems likely that this one word will be as prominent in 2004 as the image of George Bush in his jump suit. But on the real security issue--national security--the Democrats will fail if they merely agree with the President...