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...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made no secret of the fact that he was setting out to calm some nerves in a lightning whip around the Middle East Thursday, stopping in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman before heading for Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Republic that may well become the key forward base for any U.S. military action in Afghanistan. And in what appears to be a parallel mission, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - who has shouldered a good part of the coalition building responsibilities on behalf of the Bush administration - headed for Russia and Pakistan...
...numbers suggest. If the businesses have to lead us out of this thing while consumers take a short break, the corporate bleeding may already be stopping. The patient is wobbly, but it seems he's likely to pull through after all. For three years he's been on the whip end of the economy's wild ride, just missing every twist and turn - why should he do perverted things to the money supply if life is already going on? The rate cuts haven't exactly been the cure...
Morrow misconstrues a vital point. Healing is a very real and necessary thing because it prevents the useless cycle of hatred that he invokes. The anger that he wishes to whip up is the same anger that propelled those planes through the World Trade Center. A society that turns away from hatred does not become self-indulgent and weak. Rather that society provides itself with the ability to bring along all its members without squandering its resources on military battles that cannot solve fundamental problems. Do we need a military response? Yes. Do we need to invoke a jihad...
...House chaplain. Democrats complain that behind Hastert's aw-shucks mien is a take-no-prisoners pol. When they belittle him as DeLay's puppet, Hastert just smiles. "Nobody's running the show but me." While it's true that DeLay was instrumental in seeing Hastert, then his deputy whip, get the top job, the Speaker is his own man on matters large and small. It was Hastert, for example, who organized the House majorities that passed the crucial education and patients' rights bills over DeLay's objections. When Armey and DeLay publicly called for Bush to oppose funding...
...Wednesday morning, Sept. 12: Senate Majority Whip Harry Reid walked out of the White House after a meeting between the President and Democratic leaders. He had these thoughts as he strolled to his car to drive back to the Capitol. "The thing that I personally saw was the intensity of the President," Reid, a Democrat, told me. "I've been in a number of meetings with him and he's kind of a hale, hearty, pat-you-on-the-back-nice-man. But here he was a nice man but extremely intense. Obviously he was really in tune with what...