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...public panic. Religious views that tolerate violence and see destruction as hastening a meeting with God are extremely harmful. How far are such beliefs from those of suicide bombers, who kill innocent citizens in cafes and streets around the world? The distance, I think, is frighteningly small. APRIL R. THOMPSON Williamsburg...
...question is money for research and prevention programs, and who should provide the funds. Many activists believe the richest nations should fill up the collection plate. And they made their point loud and clear Tuesday when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson was booed off the stage mid-speech by protesters angry over what they perceive as the U.S.'s lack of commitment to fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS...
...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Sally B. Donnelly, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; Tim Padgett, Ghulam Hasnain and Jeanne DeQuine/Sunrise; and Noah Isackson, Ron Stodghill II and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...Trouble first surfaced several weeks ago, sources tell TIME, when Bush met in the Oval Office with HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and America's top official for economic assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development head Andrew Natsios . As Thompson discussed the new HIV-AIDS plan, Natsios grew upset and insisted that his agency should play the lead role. Bush, who is famously impatient with internal bickering, was visibly irritated by the turf skirmish, and sharply instructed Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Edson to resolve the dispute...
...Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake and that the lab is better off as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration. (All the nuclear labs just underwent a major reorganization.) While Lieberman and Thompson contend that Senate rules give their committee the job of drafting the legislation that will create the new department, Republican Orrin Hatch says it should fall under the Judiciary Committee on which he sits. Hastert, meanwhile, is thinking about creating a new committee to do the job in the House...