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...patriotic Americans can, potentially, walk easily among Al Qa’ida operatives—easily enough to sabotage their operations. I refer to the thousands of Arab- and Muslim-Americans who came forward when U.S. intelligence agencies recently requested the services of Arab speakers. There are, undoubtedly, many brave Arab- and Muslim-Americans who would be willing to work with the CIA and FBI to take down Al Qa’ida from the inside, especially if it meant that we would not have to pulverize another nation. In addition to being more effective and less brutal than bombing...
...streets of Kabul, you can see something these days that has not been glimpsed there for almost five years--women's faces. Now that the Taliban has fled the city, a few brave women have shed the burka--the head-to-toe garment, to Western eyes a kind of body bag for the living, made mandatory by the defeated religious leadership. Men sometimes look in astonishment at these faces, as if they were comets or solar eclipses. So do other women. From the moment in 1996 that the Taliban took power, it sought to make women not just obedient...
...traffic has rebounded slightly since Sept. 11, it was still off 25 percent in October from last year?s numbers, and most analysts figure the industry?s 20-percent reduction in capacity is here for good. That tight supply-demand relationship means that this holiday, even flyers willing to brave the clogged security lines (and they're going to get longer - Congress' new security measures haven?t even arrived in force yet) and the possibility of another air disaster aren't getting the flying bargains (or empty seats) they might have expected. (On the upside, the airlines' on-time rates...
Across the country, candidates decorated their ads with stars and stripes and brave rhetoric about "these challenging times," but the elections proved that Sept. 11 changed politics less than those trappings might suggest. Viciousness took a two-week break after the attacks but returned in full force before Election Day (even in New York City, where loser Mark Green set the low mark with an ad alleging Michael Bloomberg had pressured a woman to have an abortion). The candidates with the most talent and money tended to win, and Tip O'Neill's old line about all politics being local...
...Brave words. But when it came time to tell her parents about Gillespie, Ricks hesitated, knowing his race would be an issue. "I told my mom I met this great guy who was smart and handsome and," she says with a giggle, "a little bit white." Her mother, she says, was "struck dumb." But soon her parents came to know and like her boyfriend...