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...understand the processes of airport security and intelligence gathering instead of racing to the decision line of the memos set before him. In meetings with legislators, he is relaxed enough to crack the occasional joke. On Thursday, when New York Senator Charles Schumer pressed him to add an extra $20 billion in emergency aid for the state, Bush did not hesitate. "You got it," he said, though it meant squelching the objections of conservative G.O.P. Senators Don Nickles, Phil Gramm and Pete Domenici...
...hardest man ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. To avoid being spotted by satellites, bin Laden and his associates use human couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist leader Dzhokar Dudayev was blown up by a Russian rocket while using a satellite phone. Though the CIA has often been criticized for its failure to infiltrate Islamic fundamentalist groups, Ranstorp is more forgiving. "The U.S. has expended as much energy and time as it feasibly could...
...downstairs and get a quote from the governor’s press office. We need her response so we can run an extra at 11:45,” ordered my editor the second I arrived at work. As a lowly intern who spends her days checking e-mail at the Massachusetts State House, I didn’t stop to ask why. I just ran, notebook in hand and pen in hair...
...morning of September 11, The Boston Globe was caught between choosing content and speed, just like every other paper in the nation. The longer we waited to publish an extra, the more information we’d have. We could wait until a 12:30 p.m. press conference with the governor and get more details about the connections between the attacks and the two planes that departed from Logan Airport...
...North Tower at 8:45 a.m. On any other day, I would have been walking through the WTC at that time, maybe even lingering in the mall to get breakfast or coffee. Last Tuesday, however, I was late—I had stayed at home a few extra minutes to make a phone call that morning...