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...expose how Al Qaida is put together. The questions, though are how well hidden these guys are, will the U.S. get any actionable intelligence, and will they be able to act on it. Any operations will be custom crafted from the ground up; there is no template. It will depend on intelligence, and the real situation as it develops on the ground...
...comedy staple, and though Serendipity is a little vague about exactly how many years Jonathan and Kate tote their torches around with them, they are many. And the two make recent ventures into this territory (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) look hasty. Your affection for Serendipity may depend on how fascinated you are by a movie that is apparently going after the all-time record for delayed consummation...
...came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
...Depend on it; these expressions of support and any that follow come with a price tag. A top-level Saudi delegation to Washington last week stressed the need to address the grievances of the Palestinians. Russia will not expect to hear a lot of moaning from Americans about its behavior in Chechnya. Pakistan will expect some economic relief for its battered economy. (And Pakistan will get it; sources tell TIME that Japan has already offered cash and loan guarantees to Islamabad.) George Bush's war will be one of strange bedfellows...
Ultimately, the kind of war culture we get will probably depend on the kind of war we get: whether it's a rousing success or a quagmire, whether terrorists strike again or people begin to feel safe, whether we're deluged with battle video or it unfolds in secret. We may be entering a recession too, which produces a different culture from the optimistic boom times that gave us snarky dotcom ads, boy bands and upscale sitcoms. The last recession saw the rise of downscale TV families on Roseanne and The Simpsons and downscale grunge rock. Might a downturn...