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...Then the U.S. joined World War II (a phrase, incidentally, that was popularized by Time magazine), and Berlin produced a new slew of patriotic songs. At the request of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, he wrote "Any Bonds Today?" - best known in the Bugs Bunny rendition - that urged Americans to buy war bonds. Berlin assigned all royalties to the Treasury Department, then wrote a variation, for another fund-raising drive, called "Any Bombs Today?" Profits from his song "Angels of Mercy" went to the American Red Cross; from "Arms for the Love of America," to the Army Ordnance Department; and from...
...friendly to industry. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, has just written Cheney to ask whether his panel was "influenced by unreliable data or opinions provided by Enron." Meanwhile, the General Accounting Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, is pressing its long-standing (and so far denied) request for task-force records. Comptroller General David Walker, who runs the GAO, tells TIME that pending energy legislation and congressional inquiries into Enron make it imperative that Cheney produce the material. If Cheney refuses to budge, Walker says, the GAO may take the issue to court...
...Moussaoui, who made a brief court appearance Wednesday, will be arraigned Jan. 2 in Alexandria, Va. His attorneys did not request bail for him today. He's charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of U.S. employees and destruction of U.S. property...
...It’s unfortuante that this request has been thought of as a dean’s plot...
...Authority (PA) minister for communications, put it plainly during a speech in Gaza in December 2000 (reported by the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Ayyam): “The PA had begun to prepare for the outbreak of the current intifada since the return from the Camp David negotiations, by request of President Yasser Arafat…and not as a specific protest against Sharon’s visit.” In other words, as al-Faluji put it later, “Whoever thinks that the intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon’s visit...