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...What the bomber had to say challenges prevailing beliefs about the causes of terrorism. Not all extremists are motivated by poverty or desperation; the Iraqi you interviewed is the privileged son of an Iraqi businessman. Terrorists like him are fighting not just for control of their land; the U.S. occupation seems almost an afterthought. The primary motivations of the bomber you talked to are his twisted view of Islam and the heavenly reward it promises. The West cannot appease or defeat Islamist extremists by ending military occupation. Moderate Muslims must rise up and speak out against terrorist acts...
...super brainiacs. The women wanted to know the heights of the donors, if they had musical abilities, and their family health history. Brains were only one of the characteristics they valued. Although he was forced to recruit other donors because of a lack of supply, Graham was a businessman and quickly realized that having other kinds of donors was a good marketing move. The biggest attraction of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank was the sense of choice...
...prefer to avoid these situations by dealing with reality abstractly when we can, and putting our humanity on hold when avoiding reality is impossible. And so it is that a businessman who walked by that morning and did not notice the woman sprawled by his foot could, an hour later in his office, his humanity re-engaged, become saddened by a newspaper report of a crime half a continent away...
...stylized businessman who appears on the fares, holding one of his now-eponymous tickets aloft, is a reincarnation of Charlie, the hapless commuter popularized by the Kingston Trio, a folk group, in a 1959 recording...
...these days, when I get the chance to share a few words with a lobbyist or businessman or congressional staffer, I grin stiffly and tell them that Im from California, but that I go to school at Harvard. And, after warning them that I might get in touch with them for lunch sometime, I ask for a business card...