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...years of communist rule on Oct. 1 marks a more serious side to the rise of the People's Republic. Some 5,000 military personnel and 108 missile trucks - including several carrying ICBMs capable of hitting Washington - proceeded with pomp down Beijing's central avenues as more than 150 fighter aircraft soared overhead. And to make sure the heavens don't rain on their parade, the Chinese will scramble a fleet of fog-dispersing aircraft to intercept storm clouds. The event "will embody China's economic and technological progress," said Gao Jianguo, a Chinese military spokesman, in an interview with...
...civilians. In an address to parliament, Merkel expressed regret but insisted she would not "accept premature judgments" about the incident, the deadliest involving the nation's military since World War II. The Sept. 4 strike on two fuel trucks hijacked by the Taliban, which was carried out by U.S. fighter jets, has heightened the Afghan war's unpopularity in Germany and erodes confidence in Merkel's coalition government ahead of parliamentary elections Sept...
...When it comes to protecting ourselves from terrorist attacks, we tend to romanticize about scrambling fighter pilots, rapidly deployed interceptive missiles, and secret agents pulling a Jack Bauer to save thousands of lives. As Professor Elaine Scarry has written, these notions go hand in hand with counterterrorism policies where major decisions are rushed (just 24 hours to save us, Jack!) and a handful of officials make them in secret, where torture is justified by the need for speed and preventive detention by simple expedience...
...what if all of this governmental hastiness doesn’t get us anywhere? After all, the only effective national defense that took place on 9/11 was bottom-up rather than top-down: the passengers who took back United Flight 93. The fighter jets could not scramble fast enough, and we may not have wanted them to: Who decides to shoot down a passenger plane, and what criteria does he or she use? We must stop assuming that we face a choice between heroic governmental protection from terrorism and no protection at all. At least with regard to airborne terror...
...slide, the sport is trying to go back to the future. Saturday night's highly anticipated match-up between the undefeated Mayweather (39-0, 25 KO's), who is returning to boxing after a 21-month hiatus, and Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs), the top fighter in Mexico, will be shown in 170 movie theaters around the country. It will be the first big fight shown in theaters since 1980, when Sugar Ray Leonard beat Roberto Duran. The move harks back to the sport's glory days, when thousands of fans filled theaters to watch Joe Louis...