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...Morgan Chase acquired Hong Kong financial firm Jardine Fleming and then sold off its banking arm, all in the past year. But there is one part of Jardine Fleming's assets that its new parent company is holding close: its junks. Not those of the bond variety but the famous sailboats long associated with Hong Kong harbor. Companies such as J.P. Morgan and its rival HSBC entertain clients aboard well-appointed junks with colorful sails. Maeve Gallagher, J.P. Morgan's Hong Kong spokeswoman, says the junks are popular among bank employees, who get to use them when the boats aren...
...state of "maximum turmoil," as military strategists call it--the ideal environment for American forces to put bin Laden on the run. A huge, nagging fear was that bin Laden would disappear inside Afghanistan, dug in so deep that he could lead the U.S. forces on a long, futile chase. But allied officials exuded more confidence than ever before that they knew where...
...retrospect, it was a mistake to chase the two men out of Sudan. In the mountains and caves of Afghanistan, they were newly safe from prying eyes. In 1998 came the attacks on the U.S. embassies in East Africa, for which al-Zawahiri, like bin Laden, was later indicted in New York City. That attack also set off a U.S.-led manhunt throughout the world in which dozens of members of Al Jihad were arrested and extradited to Egypt, further crippling the organization's infrastructure. The besieged group split into two factions. One side angrily denounced al-Zawahiri for dragging...
...appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that "we're on the hunt" and we're "going to chase them down," then advised impatient Americans to get over their need for "instant gratification...
...offbeat animators at Pixar have cleverly inserted many more references into Monsters, Inc., which devoted (and even not-so-devoted) movie buffs will be able to recognize. Toy Story nostalgics will cheer at elements of the Toy Story 2 airport scenes—absolutely no one can make animated chase sequences as comically exciting and inventive as Lasseter and Co., who also manage to pay tribute to Disney movies galore. This distinctive combination of whimsy and wit defines a distinctive way of filmmaking—what I like to think of as the “Pixar genre...