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U.S. Seeks Access to Bank Records to Deter Terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/national/10terror.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
The plan would give the government access to possibly hundreds of
millions of international banking records.
Terror
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Maybe We're Not Robbing the Cradle
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/weekinreview/10porter.html
By EDUARDO PORTER
Some economists are sanguine about the U.S.'s ability to support the
elderly and at the same time provide for the young.
Eduardo Porter
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A Tax Increase That Bush Didn't Mention
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/business/yourmoney/10view.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Cynics have long predicted that the Bush administration will eventually
start raising taxes. Now it is becoming clear where some of that money
may come from.
With Friends Like These...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446492/site/newsweek/
A lunchtime chat with a lobbyist close to Tom DeLay suggests he may be
headed for hotter water.
By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
April 18 issue - Jack Abramoff was somber, bitter and feeling betrayed.
Once a Washington superlobbyist, Abramoff is now the target of a
Justice Department criminal probe of allegations that he defrauded
American Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars in fees. As
stories of his alleged excess dribble out-including the emergence of
e-mails showing he derisively referred to his Native American clients
as "monkeys" and "idiots"-some of Abramoff's old friends have
abandoned him and treated him like a pariah. They claim they knew
nothing of his questionable lobbying tactics. So last week, glumly
sitting at his corner table at Signatures, the tony downtown restaurant
he owns that remains his last redoubt, Abramoff lashed out in
frustration.
Playing Rope-a-Dope
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7445649/site/newsweek/
Harry Reid's strategy: let the GOP punch itself out
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
April 18 issue - There's nothing fancy about Harry Reid, the Democratic
leader in the Senate. Sartorially, he is a symphony in brown. He hails
from a Nevada eye-blink called Searchlight, but isn't at ease in the
spotlight. "I would just as soon never have a press conference," he
says. An amateur boxer in his youth, the 65-year-old Reid's idea of a
good time is to watch reruns of famous bouts on ESPN Classic. A
favorite was on the other night: the 1955 epic between Archie Moore and
Rocky Marciano. "Moore flattened Rocky early," Reid said. "Had him
down, almost out. But by patience and sheer determination Marciano came
back, round by round, and won. Both guys were cut and bloody when it
was over."
Not Quite A Wrap
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7445648/site/newsweek/
The Governator's agenda suffers a new plot twist.
By Karen Breslau
Newsweek
April 18 issue - Like millions of California Democrats, Wendy Bokota
voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger, even though he is a Republican. "I
thought he could make a difference," she says. But her flirtation was
short-lived: when Schwarzenegger proposed limiting school spending to
help balance the budget, Bokota, a mother of three, became incensed.
When the governor appeared recently in Anaheim, not far from her home,
she and her children joined the throng of protesters who seem to dog
Arnold everywhere he goes these days. "I guess I wasn't as informed as
I should have been when I voted for him," she now says.
New Blood, Ancient Wounds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446004/site/newsweek/
Iraq now has something to celebrate: elected leaders. But they oversee
a nation teetering toward civil war.
By Owen Matthews
Newsweek
April 18 issue - Karim and Harith have a strict rule whenever they meet
at their parents' north Baghdad house: don't talk politics. No one in
the family wants the brawl that would likely erupt between the two
brothers. Harith, a passionate Islamist who owns a small butcher shop,
belongs to a seven-man cell of insurgents in the capital. He boycotted
the January elections and fought against U.S. Marines last year in the
streets of the solidly Sunni Al Aadhamiya neighborhood. Karim, a former
officer in Saddam's armed forces, serves proudly as a captain in the
new Iraqi Army and expresses support for the Baghdad government. The
brothers agree on only two things. Both men want an end to the city's
electrical outages-and both want the Americans to go home.
How Hamas Wins Voters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7445647/site/newsweek/
The fundamentalists offer a defiant message, social services and good
toilets.
By Kevin Peraino
Newsweek
Updated: 1:32 a.m. ET April 10, 2005
April 18 issue - Imad Awad stands toward the back of Bethlehem's Manger
Square, where a few hundred supporters of the Islamist group Hamas have
gathered in advance of the town's municipal elections next month.
Masked boys dressed like suicide bombers strut through the crowd and
slice the air with hatchets; others torch Israeli flags. Awad, a
26-year-old unemployed engineer, voted for moderate President Mahmoud
Abbas back in January. But he considers himself a swing voter, and he's
grown tired of the corruption in Abbas's Fatah party. "It's a beautiful
thing," Awad says as he takes in the Hamas pyrotechnics. "We're fed up!
We want a change."
How We Drive Our Jobs Away
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446005/site/newsweek/
The most recent government action in American health care has made
things much, much worse. The result: a fiscal black hole.
By Fareed Zakaria
Editor, Newsweek International
Newsweek
April 18 issue - Which part of North America makes the most cars? If
you answered Michigan, you would have been right for 100 years. But you
would not be right anymore. Last year the Canadian province of Ontario
surpassed Michigan in car production. Of course, most of the cars made
in Ontario are manufactured by America's Big Three-General Motors,
Ford and Daimler-Chrysler. These companies are shifting production out
of the United States for one overwhelming reason: massive health-care
costs. An American worker costs them more than $6,500 in health care
per year. In Canada, which has a government-funded and -run health-care
system, the cost to the employer per worker is just $800. While the Big
Three are an unusual case, they highlight what might turn out to be the
most significant threat to the competitiveness of American firms in an
increasingly global economy: our out-of-control health system.
Die, Software!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7433762/site/newsweek/
Salesforce.com's leader talks about Microsoft, philanthropy and why
CEOs should tell stories.
By Steven Levy
Newsweek
April 18 issue - The not-exactly-thrilling world of enterprise
software, which manages the workings of corporations and monitors their
client relationships, paradoxically generates larger-than-life
executives in its own ranks. Think Larry Ellison, the billionaire CEO
of Oracle. It's no accident that Marc Benioff worked for Ellison for 13
years before founding San Francisco-based Salesforce.com in 1999. That
new company was based on the premise that business software-and maybe
all software-was changing from a product to a service. Leaving Oracle
was a risk for Benioff, but risk-taking is in keeping with his outsize,
gregarious personality, which has gotten him in hot water-like when
he spoke too much about his company's ultimately successful IPO before
the offering last year. Now that the quiet period is long over, the
40-year-old can dish.
In the New Game of Tag, All of Us Are It
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7445653/site/newsweek/
Will free-style information tagging lead to anarchy? Early results are
showing quite the opposite.
By Steven Levy
Senior Editor
Newsweek
April 18 issue - Melvil Dewey had it easy. In 1876, when he created his
famous system of ordering information, the Dewey Decimal Classification
System, there weren't Web sites, video clips or blogs. Today's digital
world-where millions of items are generated on an hourly basis, and
even fantastic search engines can't find all the good stuff-is
tougher to organize than a herd of Democrats. But Internet pundits now
claim a solution: let the people do the categorizing. Using a practice
called tagging, we can collectively label everything from great
literature to pictures of your puppy. Bye-bye, Dewey. Hello,
do-it-yourself.
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