Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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There is a reason the tax-cut bill left Bush a bit tongue tied: behind the scenes, his campaign operatives have been working hard against it, congressional sources tell TIME. The last thing they want before an election in which Bush is promising relief to taxpayers is for someone else to get there first. Especially since it poses the prospect of the photo op from hell--the image of Al Gore smiling over the shoulder of Bill Clinton as he signs a tax cut for which everyone gets credit except the Republican nominee...
From a candidate who styles himself an outsider, those are impressive inside moves. The problem is that "what Austin wants" carries a lot less weight in the Republicans' inner councils than it did a few months ago. G.O.P. sources tell TIME that last fall, after Clinton vetoed Congress's $792 billion tax cut, it was pressure from the Bush campaign that helped shut down Republican discussions of whether to chop that tax relief into smaller pieces, pass it in increments and force the President's hand. Now that the Bush campaign has stumbled, lawmakers are far less certain...
...without fear of prosecution, delivered the baby into the hands of a nurse. For the infant's funeral, 70 strangers showed up. One of them left a note attached to a bouquet of flowers: "Lord, as You hold this child in Your arms today, please comfort him and tell him we're sorry for not protecting...
...could talk with the people carrying out these disruptions, I'd tell them that their actions just aren't the cool thing to do; these attacks aren't impressive. They require no sophistication. They are analogous to throwing paint remover on cars driving down the street, and they're getting a bunch of people angry. I've learned a very painful lesson--avoid any contact with the criminal-justice system, because it's a system that's stacked completely in favor of the prosecution...
...terms of my release permitted me to do so, I'd tell the people running the sites that were hit three things, all of which they may have done by now: 1) use a network-monitoring tool to analyze the packets being sent to determine their source, purpose and destination; 2) place your machines on different subnetworks of the larger network in order to present multiple defenses; and 3) install software tools that use packet filtering on the router or fire wall to reject any packets from known sources of denial-of-service traffic...