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...power to tear us away from any inclination to forget our vulnerability, the hatred for America that exists in so many other parts of the world. Just as pictures of the Berlin Wall remind us of a time when political division and fear brought the world to the nuclear brink, images of the World Trade Center will focus our anger and sadness into action against terrorists. To erase those images would allow America to push last week’s tragedy from its immediate consciousness, thereby diminishing its long-term capacity to prevent similar attacks...
...contained is leaving some people making less than they did before - discount chains like Wal-Mart and JC Penney?s aren?t seeing their same-store sales go up because people are getting raises. If the unemployment picture isn?t yet bleak enough to push consumers over the psychological brink into complete shopping withdrawal, it?s still bad enough to keep them watching their wallets...
...hurt the long-term peace project that leaders on both sides had judged to be in their communities' mutual interest. And that may see some good come of the ugliness at Ardoyne - it has given leaders on both sides a compelling incentive to walk the crisis back from the brink, and get the peace process back on track...
...Macedonia Wednesday for "Operation Essential Harvest," ostensibly a 30-day mission in which 3,500 alliance soldiers are to destroy weapons voluntarily handed over by ethnic-Albanian guerrillas. But while the NATO force has become the focus of efforts to end the insurgency that brought the country to the brink of civil war, it has no peacekeeping mandate and the disarmament process is an entirely voluntary affair not covered by any peace deal. Indeed, NATO's official position has been that if the guerrillas choose not to hand over their weapons and the fighting resumes, the Western alliance will simply...
...anymore, but he is still the scrappiest guy in satellite TV. Last week he made a $32 billion all-stock bid for DirecTV, the largest satellite company in the U.S. The offer puts Ergen in an uphill battle against Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was on the brink of clinching his own deal for DirecTV. If Ergen outmaneuvers Murdoch in the battle that's likely to unfold in the next few weeks, he will control most of the nation's satellite sets. If he loses, the move--like a well-executed bluff--may still work to his advantage...