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...attacks shook the nation's confidence and scrambled the assumptions Americans had about their place in the world. Since then, Washington - and by that I mean the actions of both parties - has done little at home or abroad to re-instill that confidence. Americans have seen a budget surplus disappear and two wars launched, all while they have had to withstand longer lines at airports and higher prices for gasoline. All these changes, great and small, have masked the fact that 9/11 has changed Americans' instincts, too. And so even if it can be rationally defended, a deal that would...
...there are other new costs, including credit-card fees and IT equipment. EMI, for example, has invested over $130 million in technology to manage digital sales. And CD sales continue to plummet. Globally, retail sales sank about 8% last year, to just below $31 billion. Illegal downloading has not disappeared. ifpi says 885 million music files are available online for illegal downloading. In Britain and Germany, Europe's two biggest markets, 6% of Internet users buy legal music online, while 5% engage in illegal file sharing. But illegal downloads are double the rate of legal ones in France, Sweden...
...what did the U.S. learn? What plots were foiled, what leads were obtained, what links were unveiled as a result of these warrantless searches? If the government can show that the snooping kept Americans safe and sound, this controversy will disappear quickly. But it hasn't taken that approach-yet. The administration so far responds to every inquiry about how the new snooping works-and how well it works-with a firm refusal to get into what it calls "operational details." The President tried to argue the facts a bit today, suggesting almost obliquely that his administration's no-quarter...
...painted themselves into a corner. Hamas leaders have been very smart politically so far; that's why they are where they are. The obligations of governing may force Hamas finally to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth...
...they've painted themselves into a corner," says Marina Ottaway of the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The obligations of governing "may force Hamas to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream world they are in, that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth." If Hamas can make that leap, Israel will find Hamas a tougher but more credible negotiating partner than Arafat ever...