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...spirit behind Carnahan’s proposed legislation is commendable. Yet it also highlights one of the major temptations lawmakers will face as they confront the financial costs of stabilizing the airline industry. The economic aftershocks of the Sept. 11 attack will be widespread; in addition to the airline industry, tourism, insurance and shipping are also sure to suffer substantial losses. Congress cannot identify, let alone compensate, every company harmed by the attack and every worker laid off as a result. Instead, it should focus its efforts on preventing widespread bankruptcies in industries vital to the nation?...
...Press; November), giving it a starred review. The book and CD draw on the 1,200 interviews with African-Americans that make up the Duke University collection called Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. Says PW, "Viscerally powerful...Readers and listeners will confront ?the dailiness of the terror blacks experienced at the hands of capricious whites,? and of ?the capacity of the black community to come to each other?s aid and invent means of sustaining the collective will to survive...moving, deeply instructive." PW predicts success for this project: "The award-winning Remembering...
...fires are finally extinguished and the survivors are pulled from the ash piles where the World Trade Center once stood, we must confront the terrible reality that an act of war has been committed on American soil. When the last comparable atrocity came screaming out of the sky over Pearl Harbor, the United States responded with a political and military campaign that resulted in nothing less than the destruction of the system that produced the attack. Surely a response of equal gravity is needed today: we must combat the threat of terrorism and do whatever is necessary to safeguard...
Year after year, the most provocative works of art are those which confront taboos of the period in which they were created, art through which an artist seeks to challenge his society’s ideals or the parameters of its concepts of propriety. And although Udé’s exhibit certainly does qualify as questionable—based on its seemingly gratuitously pornographic content and its direct confrontations with modern society’s notion of beauty and normality—his pieces are intellectually provocative and pose worthy questions...
...four banks?the Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China?are in trouble. "That's when the revolution will begin," Chang writes. He asks a rhetorical question which, as he sees it, Chinese will have to confront from 2006 on: "Now that you have a choice (will you) keep your money with an insolvent institution or one that can pay you back?" The answer?like most of this book's conclusions?is simple: it will be time for this hypothetical depositor to "stand in line with the millions...