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...which secretly plotted against Saddam before Clinton went public, is still picking up the pieces of its shattered operation. More than five years ago, the agency poured millions of dollars into a guerrilla force of the I.N.C., a loose coalition of Iraqi exile groups led by Ahmed Chalabi, a wealthy Iraqi Shi'ite and skillful political organizer. But with the White House nervous about being sucked into a contra-style insurgency war, the CIA pulled the plug on its support for Chalabi's guerrillas and turned to Iraqi officers in Saddam's inner circle who might topple him. That ended...
...many believe that the speculation is unwarranted. "This bill doesn't materially change the products or activities that banks are interested in getting into," says George Bicher, bank analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (speaking of mergers). As a practical matter, Bicher notes, Glass-Steagall lost its teeth long ago. Exploiting loopholes and a remarkably tolerant Fed, banks and insurers and brokerages have been invading one another's turf for two decades. Still, some new combinations are inevitable. Says David Stumpf, senior bank analyst at A.G. Edwards: "We will see some consolidation among banks and insurance companies, with banks doing...
...dash of fantasy, we asked Caleb Carr to write a novella that will be serialized in all five issues. Caleb's best-selling novels (The Alienist, Angel of Darkness) are set a century ago, so it's a nice twist to have him write a mystery thriller set in 2024. We can't wait to see how it ends, especially since, in the spirit of 19th century novelists who, like Charles Dickens, wrote and published books in installments, Caleb is still writing Part 2. Who says editors don't like to live dangerously...
...social handshake has its anthropological origins in the idea of primitive man showing he was not carrying a weapon, the political handshake springs from long ago when a king's touch might do magic and when the power of such connection seemed infinitely more pertinent than the potential germs. To touch was to partake somehow--maybe even through the germs--of the king's magic. Surely voters will imagine that when they shake hands with Donald Trump, gold will rub off. (Of course, bad magic may also be communicated. Maybe the handshake with Herbert Hoover many years ago explains...
...disease, cancer, Alzheimer's and perhaps even AIDS. One of our enduring traits--after all, we have not only survived this long but prospered--is our optimism that life does improve, that despite wars and epidemics and natural disasters, we are better off today than we were 100 years ago. Prediction is hard, but who can fault us for looking forward to the new century with wonder...