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...only one living on the edge. So, say senior officials, was Tenet. Every few days, the CIA director would call Tom Pickard, who had become acting director of the FBI in June, asking "What do you hear? Do you have anything?" Pickard never had to ask what the topic...
...hoping all that activity convinces voters that the Bush team is finally on top of things. Meanwhile, they're praying that the "real economy" stays stable and the markets settle down. More made-for-TV indictments are likely this week, which will help too. But just in case, one topic slated for discussion at the Waco forum is--as White House communications director Dan Bartlett puts it--"ways to avoid a double-dip recession." And as some economists point out, on a graph, a double-dip recession looks like...
...Rising opens with Lonesome Day, one of the few songs told in Springsteen's own voice. "House is on fire, viper's in the grass," he sings. "A little revenge, and this too shall pass." Like most of The Rising, Lonesome Day gets you moving in spite of its topic. The fire-fighter songs, Into the Fire and the first single, The Rising, put the listener in the physical space of the crumbling towers, but they never get at the emotions behind the fire fighters' courage. The songs are rousing and redemptive--and a little shallow. But almost every other...
...threatened strikes have been avoided. The chorus of complaints against the Commission also comes at a time when its future is under scrutiny in the new Convention for the Future of Europe as the E.U. prepares to take in as many as 10 new members in 2004. A major topic of discussion is whether or not the Commission's President and possibly its other members should be elected. Supporters of the move argue that it would do much to overcome the European Union's current "democracy deficit," the perception that the E.U. is insufficiently accountable to the public. Yet others...
...reasonable decision, given that there is no shortage of refrigerator space in our office, to bring a jar of mayonnaise to work and then put it on my sandwich at noon rather than putting it on in the morning and letting the sandwich get soggy in my bag. That topic is still too painful for me to write about at length...