Word: weeks
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...coordinating their terror campaigns with Arafat. "Are you crazy?" says a Hamas leader, indicating that Arafat is far too moderate for the ends Hamas has in mind. The group's radical agenda has put it on a collision course with the moustarabine units. A Hamas operative explained last week that his men try to be extra vigilant for unfamiliar faces and awkward accents. If they spot someone suspicious, they begin pestering the stranger with questions about his home village. Moustarabine agents had better be sure they can name at least three neighbors or their cover will be blown...
...Palestinians have their own brand of covert operations too. Israeli and Palestinian security sources believe that Hamas bombers are planning attacks against Israel. An Islamic Jihad activist blew himself up near an Israeli outpost in Gaza last week...
...Atwater, the late maestro of hardball politics, had rules about down-and-dirty campaign advertising, among them this: if you have to do it, do it late. So right on schedule, gut-punching ads hit the airwaves last week in the handful of ground-zero states as both parties and their sympathetic special-interest groups worked to boost turnout among the faithful--or drive it down...
...Byrd ad, running in 10 states where black-voter turnout could make the difference, is part of a $2 million-plus campaign by the N.A.A.C.P. National Voter Fund. The group said it would replace the ad this week with a less graphic version, as part of a planned rotation. But Heather Booth, the group's executive director, makes no apologies. "Sometimes the truth hurts," she says...
...October has been ascribed in part to George W. Bush's slim but unblinking lead in the national polls since the debates. Investors in index component Microsoft, mindful of which administration owns the Justice suit, have pushed the stock up from $48 to past $70 in the last three weeks. Pharmaceutical stocks, HMOs, defense and tobacco stocks (Bush is against that suit too) are all perking up. Friday's stumble in those sectors, after such a promising week, was being blamed in part on the after-hours announcement Thursday of Bush's DUI conviction. Call it a profit warning...