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...even an outbreak wouldn't be good news of sorts if it were tied to resurgent economic growth. But whenever energy prices are high - and despite taking a brief slide Monday as Iraq ended its month-long oil embargo, they still are - the worst kind of price pressures lurk. Add to that the weak dollar increasing domestic prices in the import-dependent U.S., and it's not too hard to imagine some version of that dreaded 70s economy - growth-less inflation and listless stock prices - playing in re-runs this summer. That could force Greenspan into some very unpopular tightening...
...Gates of Janus is presented in two parts. The first contains Brady's take on man's disposition as it relates to crime. To Brady's way of thinking, a killer may lurk within us all: therefore, responding to a murderous impulse may simply be being honest to oneself. In the second part, Brady analyzes the perpetrators of 11 serial killings, including American Ted Bundy, executed in 1989 for murdering three women and suspected of slaying over 30 more, and "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, imprisoned for murdering 13 women in northern England...
...basic problem is that he lacks a monopoly of force, and is looking to the international community to provide the enforcers that will give his government the muscle to function as the law of the land. But foreign reluctance to participate is based on the very real dangers that lurk in a mission that would ultimately require disarming hundreds of local and provincial warlords. After all, it's not only in isolated cases such as Gardez that the post-Taliban power arrangement threatens to break down into new fighting...
...Maybe evil has managed to persuade us that it does not exist. Evil does not have color, creed or nationality. It comes in many guises and has as its only objective the destruction of good. I implore good and wise people to be wary of the evil that may lurk not only in the caves of Tora Bora but also in the corridors of power on their own soil. ATIF RAHMAN Islamabad, Pakistan...
...only admire the energy thrown into the fight and the motivations of our activist friends. But significant pitfalls lurk in their constant pursuit of the “living wage” mirage...