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...boom is gone, the dot-coms are shuttered, the Age of Clinton has come to an end, and the time has come again to decide what kind of nation we will be. Will we be the America that our enemies—the bin Ladens and Iranian mullahs, the fascist despots of Beijing and the tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will...
...customers dropping unfathomable sums on handbags, and the flights to California and Hawaii are still booked up three months in advance (even if people are drawing on funds they set aside for a rainy day). Driving through Atlanta five years ago, while it was basking in its pre-Olympic boom, I saw broken windows, shuttered stores and people walking lost and disenfranchised down streets without cars or telephones; in recessionary Japan, by contrast, most of the people I see seem to be well dressed, on their way to somewhere and exulting in Ichiro's success in America's big leagues...
...handful of people standing and looking in the direction of the one remaining tower. We briefly paused and stared with them but then decided to keep walking. Only seconds after we resumed our march of terror, we heard a loud “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Our first thought was that a large truck was passing overhead on the FDR. Only seconds later, though, we turned around to find only dark gray smoke where the north tower had once stood...
Access to recording studios is also well out of reach for the average Cuban, who takes home about $20 a month. Even the prices for a boom box and a turntable--the two launching pads of the U.S. hip-hop explosion--are prohibitively high. So only a few raperos have had the privilege of actually making a CD. Cuban rap thus evolved first as a live art form. "Hip-hop is not a good business here yet," admits Fernandez. "Very few people can afford to buy the CDs, and most of the clubs can only charge a $1 cover, which...
...Rebuilding longer-term confidence in the solid supremacy of the American economic way may be in George W. Bush?s hands. It starts with the military response for which the world is waiting right now - this ten-year boom started when the tanks rolled onto Kuwaiti soil, and starting it again will take a psychological sense that the U.S. has its enemies in its sights, its political will galvanized, and its thinking cap on about how not to do more harm than good...