“Secretary of State Colin Powell told King Abdullah II of Jordan on Thursday that the Bush administration intends to corner Yasser Arafat to make sure he curbs terror attacks on Israel,” AP Diplomatic Correspondent Barry Schweid reports. “A senior U.S. official said that was Powell’s overriding message to the king in their 45-minute session in Powell’s State Department office and that Abdullah accepted the tactic as a good idea. “In

“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview on Thursday Israel should have killed Yasser Arafat in 1982 when it had the Palestinian leader under siege in Beirut,” Reuters reports. “His remarks were condemned by Palestinian officials.” ‘I think this reflects what has been always said — that Sharon is trying to finish what he began in 1982,’ cabinet member Saeb Erekat said. ‘And for prime ministers to announce openly

“Five women were charged with trespassing and reckless endangerment in lower Manhattan for climbing to a building rooftop and unfurling a banner that read, ‘Bush and big biz agree that people with AIDS drop dead,’” the AP reports. “Police also reported vandalism at several chain businesses around Manhattan. A California man was arrested for defacing the front door of a Starbucks coffee shop, police said.” Well, that’ll teach those evil

“D.C. librarians are furious with a decision not to recognize Martin Luther King and other black historical figures in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library’s public art galleries during February, which is National Black History Month,” The Washington Times reports. “Staffers said exhibit coordinator Elena Tscherny, who scheduled no exhibits of black history or culture, told them the library’s policy is not to give special consideration to race in

“A tenured math professor who complained Temple University wanted him to inflate grades and ‘dummy down’ course work has been fired on grounds of incompetence, his attorney said. Martin Eisen, 69, who worked at Temple for nearly 35 years, had been on paid leave since August 1999 while the university investigated students’ complaints about his grading practices.” ‘Our position is that he is not incompetent,’ Daily said. ‘What Temple demanded

“The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center has issued a ‘high-importance’ bulletin warning about potential terrorist threats to American water-supply systems,” FOXNews reports. “The alert was issued after a computer owned by an individual indirectly linked to Usama bin Laden was found to contain several software programs used for structural engineering of ‘dams and other water-retaining structures.’ The NIPC bulletin also noted that terror suspects have shown ‘interest’ in insecticides and

The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes examines the upsurge in recent support for the GOP and asks (rhetorically), why the dramatic shift in polling numbers? For Barnes, the answer is issue inversion. Issues that were paramount in voters’ minds before the attacks–health care, Social Security, the environment–are now peripheral. These are Democratic issues. And issues that were peripheral–terrorism, national security, homeland security–are now central. These are Republican issues. Bush pursues the

Sometimes a headline says it all: from The Houston Chronicle: Johnnie Cochran hired to represent Enron workers.” Good grief. …Okay, okay…I’ll go first: “If the figures don’t fit, you must remit…!” Post yours below using the convenient “comments” link. Go ‘head, you know ya wants to…