The Washington Post, October 18th, 2001
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust," T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Waste Land" in 1922. He could have been describing the Congress today. A handful of anthrax particles sent through the mail to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has sent Capitol Hill into an orbit of jitters and confusion and set off a civil war (luckily only of words) between the House and Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, Daschle set off alarm bells by calling the bacteria in his mail "potent." On Wednesday, he sponsored a news conference where a military expert claimed that the anthrax was "garden variety." Were the...
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