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...severe sense of economic malaise, Petersonsuggested, could prompt enough unrest--and enoughsupport for Clinton's "change" ticket--to tip theNovember balance in Democrats' favor
When it comes to blocking terrorist plots, the U.S. has learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup: a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack a U.S. airline installation...
...Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks greater than...
...every drawback, it seems, some feminine quality makes them appear better suited for office. And the mere fact that women are women--and aren't white males--may be enough to tip the balance...
...mystery. It controlled almost every aspect of life and counted more than 20 million members in its prime, yet seemed to vanish overnight after the failed coup. A year later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits of Lenin but pay only lip service to the new regime. In a show of strength last month, a coalition of hard-line communists and extreme nationalists...