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...that may be difficult for Daschle. He won't alter Bush's big spending increases for the Pentagon and homeland security. Unless he can fashion cuts like the ones Bush proposed in domestic spending programs - which his own party would likely oppose - Daschle could end up dipping into the Social Security and Medicare surpluses or running up a deficit as well. "I'm anxious to see what they can produce and stay consistent with their rhetoric," chortles conservative GOP Congressman John Shadegg. Indeed, the budget war will get interesting for both sides in the coming months...
...implicit, populist message to viewers: Fox News doesn't think it's better than you (unless you're the competition). It is not handing down news on tablets; it is not ashamed to look like Access Hollywood. Its on-air talent is colloquial--"Slammed on the floor!" said a reporter describing Janet Reno's public fainting spell last week, as if she had been upended by The Rock--with less patrician polish than traditional newscasts. It's a far cry from William F. Buckley--a conservative haven that appeals to social-class resentment. O'Reilly, the highest-rated host...
...late September and law-enforcement agencies were busy tracking down terrorists. Johnson, 31, a production assistant at a cable-channel website, called his local precinct in Brooklyn and was told the N.Y.P.D. was so swamped, the detectives couldn't do anything unless he had the perpetrator's name and address...
...three major credit bureaus and found that two of his credit reports were riddled with errors. Accounts had been opened by someone who gave the wrong birth date and mother's maiden name. When he turned to his local police, a detective told him nothing could be done unless he had the suspect's name and address--implying that Johnson should do a little digging...
There is only one formal count of genocide, in Bosnia: it's the gravest offense on the war crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out, in whole or in part, an ethnic or religious group - Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges...