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...Administration trying to fend off a bruising bipartisan inquiry into its handling of the terrorist chatter last summer. After the wave of warnings, the Democratic clamor for an investigation into the government's mistakes subsided, but Rowley's memo had members of both parties turning up the heat again. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle seized on the document as reason to appoint an independent commission to examine intelligence failures prior to Sept. 11, an idea the White House intensely opposes. Daschle says he will bring a bill to the floor of the Senate next week, when Congress returns from recess...
...Isolated from the rest of Russia, the people of Sakhalin have long made due with a pragmatic ingenuity. At the often snowbound Sakhalin airport a truck equipped with a surplus military jet engine aimed toward the ground clears ice from the runway, the heat and flames quickly vaporizing the fallen snow. The city bus system is made up of discarded Japanese vehicles shipped annually to Russia. Shot glasses for vodka in bars by night double as measuring cups for sunflower seeds in markets...
...Crimson had to place in the top three in its preliminary heat in order to race in the Grand Final. However, after placing fifth at Eastern Sprints, Harvard was seeded last in the first heat, behind Yale, Penn, Navy, UCLA and Columbia. The Crimson held on with Yale at the front of the pack until the 1000-meter mark, but then Harvard started to fall back while the Lions made a move to pass...
...Crimson freshman four posted Harvard’s best finish, placing fourth in the Grand Final after taking fourth in its heat and then winning the repechage...
...that his words would leak, he offered a passionate defense, saying that had he known about the plot, he would have "used the whole force and fury of the United States to stop them." By telephone later that afternoon, he okayed Dick Cheney's request to turn up the heat publicly at a fund-raising dinner Thursday night. On Friday, he faced the cameras directly. The clearest evidence that the White House was on war footing came with a statement from the First Lady, which recalled the times Barbara Bush deployed her carefully controlled patrician anger in defense...