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The president met with the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in the Oval Office. He gave a speech in Washington, DC, on his national strategy to combat terrorism. Bush nominated Mary Peters, a former Federal Highway administrator, to replace Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Our intrepid Secretary of Defense faced the surgeon's knife today, having successful arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff (left shoulder). Eric Ruff, the Pentagon press secretary, said Rumsfeld's cuff tear was caused by "an old athletic injury." Rumsfeld wrestled in college and is an avid squash player. ohioWfan and I exchanged days...

Does the state of Tennessee unwittingly help fund terrorist-supporting nations through the investments made by its public-employee retirement system's pension plan? The answer is, we don' t know - but it's a good bet the answer is yes.We don't know for certain, however, because officials with the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System refused to provide researchers with a Washington D.C. think tank, the Center for Security Policy, with any information about how it has invested Tennessee taxpayers' funds.A little background: The Center for Security Policy recently completed an extensive study, Terrorism Investments of the 50 States, which is the first national...