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When I showed him a draft of this speech, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan advised me that such bleak language would send the stock market careening into a plunge worse than the dive following 9/11. And that, my fellow Americans, is the mindset that I wish to change with this speech. America is not defined by its invincibility, nor should it be. Vulnerability is not the trait that will destroy America; rather, the danger comes from purposeful blindness and denial...
...command arrangements they have to work with. It was always a gamble to make Afghanistan the symbol of a reinvigorated Atlantic alliance. The country is far from the immediate interests of most European states. Over the last 150 years, soldiers from many nations have left their bones on its bleak mountainsides. It probably achieved its greatest unity under the Taliban's Islamo-fascism. Narcotics remain the lifeblood of economic activity, and warlordism rules everywhere outside Kabul. But this next phase of military operations in Afghanistan is especially problematic, because while Nato's expanding mission has tactical similarities to the continuing...
...Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch cuisine and cool boutiques...
...Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch cuisine and cool boutiques. Uppercut...
...BLEAK HOUSE PBS, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T. Even at eight hours, this adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale of an interminable inheritance case is quite nimble a feat for writer Andrew Davies. The Masterpiece Theatre coproduction captures the novel's satire, melodrama and horror-movie suspense without undercutting any of those disparate tones. Gillian Anderson is haunting as Lady Dedlock, a claimant tormented by the mystery of a long-lost lover. But the emotional heart of the story is Esther (Anna Maxwell Martin), the sensible orphan caught up in the suit. This is law drama such as Boston Legal's David...