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...smaller players frame the issue in terms of goodness; the real game, however, is power, and both sides know it. What is the logic? For the U.S., land mines come in handy when its intervention forces in the Balkans or the Middle East need protection against a counterattack. Ditto missile defense: invulnerability to nuclear strikes makes it so much easier to, say, defend Taiwan against a Chinese assault. Or to go after Saddam and his chemical-tipped Scuds. Why does Bush dislike the ICC? Obviously, he does not want international bodies passing judgment on U.S. nationals involved in military actions...
...back up a second here for the sake of historical accuracy. During the Civil War, Congress was not in session during the times Washington was in danger of attack by Confederate forces so there was no need to evacuate. Ditto for the War of 1812. Congress was out of session when the British stormed Washington on Aug. 24, 1814. And Congress hadn't technically convened on Sept. 11th even though folks were cleared out of the Capitol. But you get the picture...
...Economic predictions, always fraught with uncertainty, are just about impossible now. What is the effect on businesses and consumers when Islamic radicals fly airplanes into the twin totems of global prosperity? We don't know, because nothing even remotely similar has ever happened. How will America fight this battle? Ditto. Will the terrorists fight back? If they do, how much more pain will they inflict on the markets? They don't teach Terrorism 101 in business school. In the wake of the attacks, analysts across Asia slashed their GDP growth forecasts to reflect market "uncertainties." The Daiwa Institute of Research...
...have a soft spot for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the most steadfast Modernist of them all. In his later years, he proposed variations of the same building for every purpose. For office towers and museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building in New York City, threads of steel outline wide fields of glass to make the tonnage...
After I have picked the body of my personal sweetheart - sort of your average supermodel and unlike any female body I or anyone I know have ever experienced - it's time to pick a face. Nika looks kind of stuck-up and bitchy. Ditto for Celine. Also, she reportedly slept with U.S. radio shock jock Howard Stern and that's just gross. The Japanese doll, Mai, looks a bit too schoolgirlish with her pigtails. I decide on Stacy. Sure, with her 58-cm (23-in) waist, 95-cm (36-in) size C breasts and taut stomach, she's a babe...