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...talked much about crime during the campaign, everyone in New Orleans knows it is almost as important to the recovery as the levees. If crime returns in full force, many people--as well as businesses--simply will not go back. If people do not go back--feeding the tax base and bringing jobs and stability--the crime rate will become even worse...
...privacy vs. security debate has been a winning one for Bush, but the political landscape around him has shifted considerably. That is especially true among his conservative base, where trust in the President has dropped sharply. A Republican strategist close to the Bush team says of the secret collection of the nation's phone records, "On the surface of this, it appears government is extending a little farther than was discussed last fall. This is the kind of thing that a lot of core conservatives aren't crazy about. They see it as government overstepping its bounds, without it being...
...leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's real genius was to build a culture of sacrifice and martyrdom around his guerrilla force, with himself as demi-god leader - an almost exact forerunner of jihadi terrorism. In July 2002 TIME spent a few days with a female Tamil Tiger suicide squad at their base in northern Sri Lanka, and got a firsthand understanding of how he has been so successful...
...they are disciplined. Up in rebel territory, Samandi rose at 4 a.m. from her bed on the earth floor of a house she shared with 50 other women for a quick breakfast before an hour and a half studying revolutionary thought. Then there was an hour to tidy the base and wash up before 6.30 a.m., when every Tiger cadre takes their daily oath of allegiance to the L.T.T.E. After a quick wash by the well, the women of her squad set out for surrounding villages, going from door to door hearing grievances and settling disputes. At 4 p.m., they...
...Next Tuesday, he'll be doing it as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This week, as President Bush ended three days in Florida by talking Medicare in Orlando and then riding Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force base, was McClellan's final swing. He has given 502 formal briefings and traveling gaggles as the President's second White House Press Secretary, along with hundreds of informal gaggles at the White House and dozens more as Ari Fleischer's deputy before that. McClellan said he joked to the traveling staff: "If at any point...