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...will still face a blistering few months of on-the-job training. Among his key tasks will be reaching out to the Syrian military, intelligence agencies and other pillars of his father's power--including the nation's 15 internal security forces. His father had begun to prepare a hand-off, in what Martha Kessler, a recently retired CIA analyst, said was "one of the most carefully orchestrated transitions ever." But Assad wasn't finished. Are there anti-Bashar elements still squirreled away in Damascus' complex power structure? Will they strike? It was a legacy of Assad's opaque rule...
Looking like a submerged locomotive, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley poked stealthily toward the Union ships blockading Charleston harbor on the night of Feb. 17, 1864, and rammed a harpoon-like torpedo into the U.S.S. Housatonic. Then, as the Hunley backed away under the power of its hand-cranked propeller, it triggered the torpedo's charge, sinking the Yankee warship in about three minutes. It was the first enemy ship ever lost to a submarine. But Rebel jubilation was fleeting. Minutes later the Hunley unexpectedly sank, creating a mystery that has endured to this...
...looks like the fall campaign will be straight hand-to-hand combat in the swing states," says Tumulty. Gun control in New Jersey. Social Security in Michigan. "He thinks he can win on the issues if he can keep it close until then...
...ardent and very effective muscling of the China trade bill through the House last month. Gore did some serious tiptoeing to deflect most of the unions' ire onto Clinton, who could afford it; now Gore's got the China bill's - and NAFTA's - main champion as his right-hand...
Think about it - the PETA protest could be just the first pebble in an avalanche of action against "Survivor" as angry people everywhere find an aspect of the show they don't like. And it might get nasty - after all, if the show's got a cool million to hand out to the last sap left on the island, they can certainly scrape together a handsome out-of-court settlement for some "victim" with restitution on his or her mind. (Too bad they kicked that nice lawyer off the show...