The administration's reaction to the terrorists' challenge is the crux of what Dr. Lifton calls "superpower syndrome," a psychological treadmill spurned on by vulnerability and perpetuated through violence that has left the United States destabilized and terrorism poorly countered. "I'm creating a structure with a medical metaphor to explain overall and consistent behaviour," he explained.

Just as Michael Moore ignited the issue of Bush's National Guard service with his "deserter" joke at a Wesley Clark rally in New Hampshire last month, Nader could bring attention to bear on another damaging angle: On Sunday, during his Meet the Press interview, he raised the question of whether Bush should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors?lying the nation into war in Iraq.

An assistant principal who was trying to get a student expelled admitted planting marijuana in the boy's locker, police said.

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's refusal to allow human rights groups to monitor upcoming military trials of prisoners held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was sharply criticized today by three leading human rights advocacy organizations.

Consider the $27.4 million in overcharges for meals served to American troops at five military bases which, according to Halliburton were simply overcharges and not evidence of wrongdoing. $16 million of the overcharges reportedly occurred at one base. The fault lies not, we are assured, with Halliburton's subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, although it handled the food service contract it subcontracted to a Saudi subcontractor and it was the subcontractor that billed for roughly three times more meals than it actually served. That is not KBR's fault, although one might think that a Jan. 8 memorandum from KBR instructing the Saudi subcontractor to charge for "the projected number of meals or the actual head count ? whichever is greater" might conceivably have been partly responsible for the problem. Not to worry. According to a Halliburton spokesperson, "KBR is working with the government to improve the counting method." On Feb. 2, the Pentagon said Halliburton would repay the government for overcharges estimated to be $27.4 million. Had the error not been discovered by the government, KBR would have pocketed the overcharges and sung a happy tune all the way to the bank.

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