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...Simply reading the international community the riot act over what Washington expects is unlikely to build a very solid alliance against terrorism. The strength of a long-term coalition will depend on opening a dialogue among its members to make them stakeholders in a new consensus over global priorities...
...That’s not something we need to plan ahead, so we’re not ruling it out,” she says. “It will depend on what the overall situation is when we decide to do it, how we think the postal service here and abroad will be serving us and our candidates...
...assured. Tourists have not returned, which has left long-running hits like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables in danger of closing. Advance ticket sales are way off; people are going to the theater, but they are not planning ahead--a potentially fatal blow to shows that depend on hefty spring sales to get through the slow winter months. And the outlook for future productions is dicey. "What investors are asking themselves," says Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, "is, If Broadway is already at the high-risk end of the investment scale...
Most companies happily depend on underground fiber-optic lines for the high-speed transmission of voluminous data. So providers of wireless technologies have had a hard time gaining market share. But the World Trade Center tragedy has unexpectedly given them a chance to show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than...
...long been eager to mend ties with his country's biggest trade partner and investor, dispatching three separate envoys to Washington this year; as recently as July, Malaysia's Foreign Minister was told by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that a requested meeting between the two leaders would depend on improved treatment of Anwar and detained members of the opposition. Now the Americans are listening. On Oct. 1, Bush phoned to ask Mahathir's advice on fighting terrorism and set a date for the two to meet at the APEC conference. Two weeks later, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick...