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...laid out a doctrine that says we're going to secure the peace, protect the peace and extend the peace. To secure the peace in the war on terrorism, we're very aggressively searching for al-Qaeda and affiliates of al-Qaeda and holding people accountable if they harbor al-Qaeda. Preserving the peace is alliance building, working with others. The Proliferation Security Initiative is a classic example of something new that's occurred as you preserve the peace. From one nation, the United States, to now 60 nations are all involved with the interdiction of technologies and information...
Bush acted. He declared war. Not just on terrorists--the old way--but on states as well. States that harbor terrorists, states that aid and abet terrorism, states that hunger for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It all looks obvious now. It was not then. It was new: radical, dangerous and absolutely necessary...
...there's something missing, something about the paradigm-pulverizing force of the war on terrorism that is simply not conveyable in the old forms. For a glimpse of the new word order, you could do a lot worse than pick up Lorraine Adams' endlessly fascinating, curiously disorienting debut thriller, Harbor (Knopf; 292 pages...
...Harbor is set in a Boston barely recognizable to most American eyes. It is the Boston of illegal Arab immigrants, the claustrophobic demimonde of the recently arrived. Harbor follows the fortunes of Aziz, a 24-year-old Algerian who has just survived 52 days in the hold of a freighter. Speaking no English, Aziz is trapped in a shadowy half-life of dilapidated shared apartments and humiliating service-level jobs. He trusts nobody, and nobody trusts him. "It had been months," he thinks at one point, "since he had told a single human being a completely truthful sentence." His dislocation...
...million inhabitants living into their second century--many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists clog the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales harbor outsize clusters of the superold. (Gerontologists are not so beguiled by the Russian Caucasus, where exaggerated longevity claims sparked a series of Dannon yogurt commercials 30 years...