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...smarter. It took care of its own by taking care of others. It built international institutions - NATO, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization - that advanced American interests, military and economic, along with those of others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into...
...even noticed it. Like changing styles, thoughts that were paranoid last summer are today pragmatic and we quietly accept the fact that there is more terror in our country’s future. Uncertainty now occupies a permanent place in American life; fear has tacitly woven itself into the fabric of our daily routines...
...York City's trendy SoHo district, sales reps use handheld devices to scan garment tags that are fitted with Texas Instruments' R.F.I.D. (radio frequency identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens. At the Brooks Brothers store near New York's Grand Central Terminal, attendants scan the customers. Brooks' Digital Tailoring system, above--manufactured...
...Khada. "They told me they wanted to break everything down and then rebuild from chaos with their own Maoist cadres." Adds a Western diplomat in Kathmandu: "It's classic Year Zero. Kill or drive away anybody who could possibly be considered an enemy, break down all state and social fabric and replace it with fear.In the end the party is the only thing left." The former rebel commander?now hiding out in the capital after deserting in disgust over the new tactics?says the Maoists' strategy is an experiment conducted with the support of left-wing rebel groups across Asia...
...Burma, a country where symbols and omens are woven into the fabric of life, the portents were all positive. True, University Avenue, the winding road leading to the monsoon-stained mansion where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since September 2000, was still closed off. But behind the sawhorses, blue-trousered municipal workers could be seen repairing potholes and sweeping the sidewalks clear of cheroot butts, palm fronds and bamboo leaves. Neighbors reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner's lawn was being mowed, her grounds spruced up. A few blocks away, the once forlorn...