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...What shows like "The West Wing" get right far outweighs whatever wrongs they might commit in accuracy or verisimilitude. It is impossible to watch an episode without sensing a genuine passion for public service among the characters in that mythical White House. Almost any think tank in Washington will tell you that passion is presently in short supply in the real world. The ranks of talented individuals choosing government service as a career has been in steady decline for several years now. "West Wing" is not shy about revealing the dark underbelly of American politics. But neither does it retreat...
...some businesses whose products or proprietary information could be, in a sense, hijacked and used to commit acts of terror, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon came as a dark revelation. "Sept. 11 got a lot of people thinking, What is our industry's version of the $300 impenetrable cockpit door that could prevent billions in liabilities?" says John Nolan III, a former SCIP president and the chairman of PHOENIX CONSULTING GROUP. Nolan points to information and technology about dangerous chemicals as a potential target for terrorists. "Liability or embarrassment--those are the forces driving people...
...rest of the world believes that an international peacekeeping force is essential. The obvious solution is to expand ISAF's mandate from Kabul to cover the whole country. But Britain will relinquish its six-month leadership of ISAF in mid-April; its most likely successor, Turkey, is refusing to commit troops without an assurance from Washington that the U.S. will pick up the tab. "The problem is not what needs to be done," says the Western adviser, "the real problem is: Who's going to do it? Only the U.S. has the logistics and the capacity to cover the entire...
...Arafat is not taking the bait. The erstwhile prisoner of Ramallah demanded (and, in substantial part, received) an Israeli withdrawal from recently reoccupied Palestinian towns as a precondition for talks, but even then was in no hurry to commit himself to General Anthony Zinni's cease-fire plan...
...these madcap heiresses and showbiz Romeos had a job: to be seen being glamorous, by sitting in Manhattan night clubs that served as the fraternities of the leisure class, an Ellis Island for the elite. There the swells would sip martinis, intone the odd witticism or inanity and occasionally commit some headline indiscretion. It was all frightfully decadent, and frightfully innocent...