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...family helps keep Attiya and Aslam from open conflict?but their troubled country lacks such a mediating force. As Pakistan aids the U.S. in the coming weeks, its vocal hard-line minority?already urging a jihad against the U.S. and openly warning of civil war?will surely try to drown out the moderate majority. In doing so, it threatens to upset the delicate balance of the nation, and that of families like Attiya and Aslam...
...that essence may be lost on Americans more worried, at least for the moment, about money than morality. The debate over the economy and the budget threatens to drown out everything else Bush wants to do. Even trial balloons like the White House's flirtation with the idea of reducing capital-gains tax rates for two years to add energy to the economy are likely to provoke weeks of contentious debate, derailing any neatly choreographed events meant to change the subject. By October, when Bush is threatening to veto spending bills that exceed his budget guidelines and Democrats are accusing...
When 16-year-old Rene Hernandez traveled from Cuba to the U.S. in the Mariel boatlift in 1980, his first hope was that he and his family would not drown or be attacked by sharks. Inspired by the plight of his father, a political prisoner, he decided to become a lawyer, although most people told him his English would never be good enough. But a corporate lawyer? That was even more farfetched. "Minority lawyers tend to shy away from the corporate world," Hernandez says. "We don't have the road map or the playbooks. And we feel corporations...
...first listen, the rock band RaHoWa's song When America Goes Down sounds like any bad hard-core-rock ballad. The lyrics are cheesy high school poetry: "Will our 'twained lives split asunder?/ Will our love submerge and drown?" The vocals are often mumbled and atonal. And the instrumentals have all the professionalism of a Wayne's World guitar riff. But it's not every love song that features verses in which a man assures his beloved that "the color of our skin" will become "our uniform of war"--or every rock group whose name is short for Racial Holy...
...will be time for this hypothetical depositor to "stand in line with the millions of others at the withdrawal counters." When this happens Beijing "will have only two choices: to maintain public order at the point of the gun or print money fast." Of course, printing money would drown the Communist Party in the same hyperinflation flood tide in which the Nationalists foundered...