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PENETRATING AL-QAEDA: Tenet's toughest moment came when Senator John Roberts said his constituents at a Dodge City, Kans., coffee shop wanted to know why John Walker Lindh could get into al-Qaeda but the CIA couldn't. Tenet, visibly upset, replied, "You better tell everybody at the cafe it's not true." Did he mean his agents had infiltrated al-Qaeda? A U.S. official told TIME that Tenet meant just that; the CIA does have a spy inside al-Qaeda--the first time the agency has ever acknowledged this. "We have our own unilateral sources," the official says...
...terror. But privately, Bush and his aides will try to persuade the Japanese to move quickly to avoid catastrophe. "We're not going to tell them how to reverse deflation," says a senior Treasury official. "But we'll certainly tell them they need to." The most important--and toughest--message will be that Koizumi must force Japan's insolvent banks to write off more non-performing loans before the nation's estimated $5 trillion mountain of public debt crushes the economy. Says a top Administration official: "There needs to be a sense of hurry...
...Japan is tossing money at propping up rotten banks and failing companies, building highways to nowhere and becoming poorer by the day. "If the situation continues for another five or 10 years," predicts Sakakibara, "then Japan will drop out of the group of developed countries." Japan now faces its toughest manufacturing challenge in decades: it must manufacture a future...
...American team of Weinstein, Ohno, Ron Biondo and Rusty Smith—the 2001 World Championship gold medalists—will now prepare for the relay final on Feb. 23. The Canadians, who won the other semifinal heat, are expected to be the toughest competition...
...certainly was a long-awaited accomplishment. The first one is always the toughest to get,” wrote Shewchuk in an e-mail...