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In CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 39 percent name President Bush as “most admired man.” Second-place finisher is secretary of state Colin Powell, with 5 percent…. Bush on Osama bin Laden: “We’re going to get him and it’s just a matter of when.” . . . More Bush: “He is not escaping us. I mean, this is a guy who three months ago was in control of a country. Now he’s maybe in control of a cave.” . . . Democrat pollster Celinda Lake tells Washington Post this is first war American women support as much as men do. . . . Donald Rumsfeld on Afghanistan’s new government: “They want the Taliban caught. They agree with us. They want the al-Qaeda the dickens out of their country.” . . . Senate majority leader Tom Daschle blames Bush tax cuts for “the most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation’s history.” .. . Bush, in California: “There’s going to be people who say we can’t have the tax cut go through anymore. That’s a tax raise. And I challenge their economics when they say raising taxes will help the country recover. Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.”

Rudy Giuliani, in farewell address as New York City mayor, at St. Paul’s Chapel: “That city that used to be the rotting apple, that 60, 70, 80 percent of the people wanted to leave and nobody wanted to come to—that city is now very strong, and it’s a confident city. It’s a city that has withstood the worst attack of any city in America or in the history of America, and people are standing up tall, as strong and as straight as this church.” . . . Official casualty estimate for September 11: 3,161 presumed dead or missing, including 2,937 at World Trade Center, 184 at Pentagon, and 40 at Pennsylvania crash site. . . . National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund says 2001 was deadliest year for police officers since 1974, with 231 killed in line of duty, including 71 on September 11…. Cleanup of 16-acre disaster area in lower Manhattan expected complete by June. . . . Former energy secretary Bill Richardson on Clinton, in New York Times: “It’s important that the president’s legacy not be squandered because his own people remain silent and scattered.” . . . ACLU letter sent to consulates of 10 countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen: “We are particularly interested in highlighting instances of abuse by our government and in developing systematic litigation to challenge its unconstitutional practices.” . . . FBI extends terrorist alert through March 11, due to “the continuing high level of generalized threat information.”

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In CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, 39 percent name President Bush as “most admired man.” Second-place finisher is secretary of state Colin Powell, with 5 percent…. Bush on Osama bin Laden: “We’re going to get him and it’s just a matter of when.” . . . More Bush: “He is not escaping us. I mean, this is a guy who three months ago was in control of a country. Now he’s maybe in control of a cave.” . . . Democrat pollster Celinda Lake tells Washington Post this is first war American women support as much as men do. . . . Donald Rumsfeld on Afghanistan’s new government: “They want the Taliban caught. They agree with us. They want the al-Qaeda the dickens out of their country.” . . . Senate majority leader Tom Daschle blames Bush tax cuts for “the most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation’s history.” .. . Bush, in California: “There’s going to be people who say we can’t have the tax cut go through anymore. That’s a tax raise. And I challenge their economics when they say raising taxes will help the country recover. Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.”

Rudy Giuliani, in farewell address as New York City mayor, at St. Paul’s Chapel: “That city that used to be the rotting apple, that 60, 70, 80 percent of the people wanted to leave and nobody wanted to come to—that city is now very strong, and it’s a confident city. It’s a city that has withstood the worst attack of any city in America or in the history of America, and people are standing up tall, as strong and as straight as this church.” . . . Official casualty estimate for September 11: 3,161 presumed dead or missing, including 2,937 at World Trade Center, 184 at Pentagon, and 40 at Pennsylvania crash site. . . . National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund says 2001 was deadliest year for police officers since 1974, with 231 killed in line of duty, including 71 on September 11…. Cleanup of 16-acre disaster area in lower Manhattan expected complete by June. . . . Former energy secretary Bill Richardson on Clinton, in New York Times: “It’s important that the president’s legacy not be squandered because his own people remain silent and scattered.” . . . ACLU letter sent to consulates of 10 countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen: “We are particularly interested in highlighting instances of abuse by our government and in developing systematic litigation to challenge its unconstitutional practices.” . . . FBI extends terrorist alert through March 11, due to “the continuing high level of generalized threat information.”