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...left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens complained in the Nation that in their haste to point the finger at the U.S., some of the antiwarriors dismissed the fact that what the terrorists want is not a liberal ideal of global justice but the despot's utopia of religious extremism. "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face," Hitchens wrote. "What they abominate about 'the West'...is its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state...
...Redmond, a particularly ornery bull shatters a rider's leg in a serious accident that rodeo veterans refer to as a wreck. Most wrecks are not that severe, but they are nearly always serious. "You're gonna hurt sometimes," says Phil Rawlins, 71, a team roper who lost a finger during competition several years ago (it was surgically reattached). "But wrecks are part of the sport, and no one cares, because the only thing we have after senior rodeo is bingo...
...When it's not watching Washington's trigger finger, Wall Street is waiting for businesses to get confident. Businesses are waiting for consumers to get confident. And consumers are waiting for Wall Street to get confident - and to hear whether they'll be part of the 6 percent unemployment that we should be seeing by the spring. So do you buy this week's rally? I wouldn't. Sell it? Better odds - but market timing from the back of the line is for suckers. The best bet is to do what everybody else is doing, from the Big Board...
...Administration pours cold water on any other theory. Relying on intelligence intercepts of bin Laden's known associates discussing the hijackings, and on links between some of the suicide squad and elements of al-Qaeda, it continues to finger bin Laden. British intelligence too is convinced that al-Qaeda is responsible: "The evidence is pretty good, better than circumstantial," says a British source. For Powell, all of this has meant that policy on retaliation should proceed in a step-by-step approach, focusing first on bin Laden and the Taliban...
...good to see Rubin around, a meticulous man who made his career carefully assessing risks and making intelligent bets. These are not days for the loose of lip or itchy of trigger finger. But it?s going to be a long hard winter for the economy - the recession that was inevitable before Sept. 11 will be even deeper now. And as the Bush administration tries to pick its way back to more prosperous ground, the markets will occasionally look to the Treasury for guidance and reassurance, but not empty pep talks...