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...United States is often associated with cultural hegemony on a global scale. Opposition to United States cultural exports is one of the tenets of bin Laden’s particular brand of fundamentalism, a tenet that has attracted many who harbor resentment towards the United States. It is also true that radical cultural change imposed by external powers is often highly destructive to the social fabric of a nation. Witness the extreme opposition and cultural backlash to Soviet Communist rule in Afghanistan, for instance, a backlash that fed the fervor of the mujahudeen, of which the Taliban were a part...
...metro beat and she makes it her mission to know Baltimore like she has lived there all her life. Vicky “Talent” Hallett always knew that she would stay on the East Coast and Baltimore proved perfect with its off-Broadway plays, harbor, and close proximity to family and ex-Crimson friends in the nation’s capital. Tired of reporting on Harvard’s snobbish set, Vicky chose the metro beat because she feels the pulse of everyday life and demands its story—the hardhats at the old construction site...
...terrorist attack using nuclear weapons [TERRORISM, Nov. 12]. The only real obstacle to such an assault would be obtaining fissionable material. No infiltration, truck rental, border crossing or complex delivery system would be needed--a bomb could be detonated in the hold of a ship in an American harbor. If one of our coastal cities is ever hammered by a nuclear blast, the reduced effectiveness of the device at ground level will be of little comfort, and Sept. 11 will seem like an unheeded warning. We must do whatever is necessary to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, materials...
...heritage and place. Every now and then an event marks the time for us with striking clarity. No matter how much sorrow lingers for the nation and the world after Sept. 11, no matter what fears we will have to accept, no matter how much anger we harbor, we're all in this together now. Isn't that what makes a nation? CHRISTOPHER KERNS Rockville...
When we last checked in with TIME's Board of Economists, at Davos in February, they were already warning that the economic woes of the U.S. were likely to spread to the rest of the world. So with America facing its biggest crisis since Pearl Harbor, what happens...