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...know. What we already knew, to explain the absence of a second 9/11, was the offense part, not the defense. We knew about the war in Afghanistan, which had scattered al-Qaeda and degraded its capacities. We knew about the war in Iraq, which has become a magnet worldwide for jihadists, diverting energy to that front from the American front. But the defensive part, gathering critical preventive intelligence through all kinds of techniques--savory, unsavory, high tech and clandestine--had not been known...
...still be harrowing. In front of the red-walled Mahayana Buddhist Temple, Chinese immigrant workers, college students and tourists are lining up for $15 tickets to Boston. A bus rolls up and fills up in a matter of seconds--leaving 20 passengers stranded. The Chinese ticket taker struggles to explain to the frustrated customers, "No seat, no seat." Finally, the bus driver relents and allows another person to squeeze on, just before it pulls out into traffic...
...truly desperate to be honest, she said, King should purge himself privately to God or a psychiatrist. Ralph Abernathy grew so alarmed about King's confession that he canvassed the regular mistresses for hidden fits of jealousy or romantic blackmail, but he found no conventional clues to explain the rash new fatalism in King...
Most people admit they're unprepared. Surveys report that 40% of Americans are saving nothing for retirement. Fewer still have gone to the trouble of assembling a financial plan, despite the megamillions spent by financial-services companies eager to explain how complex and daunting our post-career lives will be. Financial consultants feel as if they're whistling in the wind, lamenting that their same-old, same-old message--save! don't spend! plan now!--is widely ignored. So many advisers are changing their approach, talking less about money and more about meaning: how financial planning can address a person...
...hours things between Russia and Ukraine have been developing under the worst possible scenario on the gas issue-and not just the gas issue. This (gas) war was the last drop in my decision to resign. I was offered to take part in it as a propagandist who would explain why the price hike and everything else that is being done in our bilateral relations are liberal economic policies. However, the factors that led to this decision have nothing in common with liberal economic policies...