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Bush doesn't like surprises--unless he's the one doing the surprising. Unlike Clinton, who held freewheeling all-nighters when he had to make an important policy decision, Bush prefers to keep his thoughts to himself, letting only top aides in on his plans. He forbids White House leaks, which enable interested parties to meddle, prepare their reactions and disrupt the Administration's scripted agenda. Following Bush's instructions, says a senior White House aide, chief of staff Card "likes to get a small group of people in the room and keep it very quiet...
...that all publicly traded companies should count stock options as an expense. Yet today among big companies only Boeing and Winn-Dixie do so. Why? The current system is so lucrative for company executives, who reap the lion's share of stock options, that few will make the change unless forced. This was not a big deal a few years ago. But this "free money" led to gigantic options grants in the '90s--and now, by some estimates, the cost to shareholders is double what it was just two years...
...have the same problem with the Olympics. We like those new fake sports we force the Olympic committee to include so we can win, like beach volleyball, snowboarding and major-motion-picture production. But unless the games are held either in America or Utah, we're not going to watch people pole vault. Unless they get hurt doing it. Then we'll watch it over and over again...
...military arm of the African National Congress. It is quite possible to support the aims of such groups while deploring their means. The classic example of the second category, of course, is Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, for in conventional terms bin Laden has no political agenda, unless your definition of the conventional extends to the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate. In an authoritative new study of al-Qaeda, Rohan Gunaratna of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland makes the point nicely: bin Laden...
...other coalition members have said publicly and forcefully that Pakistan should stop cross-border terrorism," he says. "Our Prime Minister took really radical initiatives in the past. There's no question of that now"?in other words, of actively looking for peace. An Indian army source adds that unless India detects that promised shift in militant activity and capability in the next five weeks, the military expects an order to attack...