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...Jazeera broadcast from bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri in early October was followed by the deadly bombing in Bali that killed more than 180. The voice's condemnation of key allies in the U.S. antiterrorism war--Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Australia--put foreign governments on alert for another major hit. Bin Laden also named Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--he calls them "the White House gangsters"--and that has counterterrorism experts worried those officials might be personally targeted...
...travel." The FBI's graphic warning of "spectacular" attacks causing "mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma" raised anxiety even as agents acknowledged they had no idea when, where or how the terrorists might strike. While the Administration did not raise the national alert level from yellow to orange, officials are bracing for the worst and operating on a hair trigger regarding any suspicious activity. Before 9/11, the FBI preferred to keep its targets under surveillance until agents acquired hard evidence of a specific plot. Today the mission is disruption first...
...governments around the world had championed programs to teach the standard English spoken in American and British boardrooms (TIME Global Business, Nov. 26, 2001). Now in Tainan, Taiwan, Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair has taken English instruction to a whole new level. Garbage trucks in Tainan usually blare symphonies to alert residents to bring out the trash. But since September, Hsu has had several trucks blast English phrases like "May I help you?" and "How much is it?" Dozens of five-second English lessons, which will change weekly, have been recorded for the program. Mayor Hsu says the free English lessons...
...previous issue of TIME Global Business, dated Oct. 28, included errors in two of our charts. The first one, in the cover story on the wine trade, should have listed wine production by country in billions of gallons rather than millions of gallons, as several alert readers pointed out. The second chart, on the Global Investing page, misrepresented the health of two corporate pension plans. As of Aug. 30, Sempra Energy had a pension surplus of $168 million, and Allegheny Technologies had a pension deficit of $32 million, according to revised estimates by UBS Warburg. We attributed our figures...
...decent man's anguish richly palpable. Moore makes us feel hidden frenzy with a cool and ultimately heartbreaking grace. As a result, Far from Heaven ironizes without parodying an antique screen manner, then reaches out from beneath this smooth cover to grab us. It's the Sirk movie--fully alert to all his shadowy implications--that Sirk may or may not have intended but never actually made...