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That setback was repeated in other spheres as Western (Christian) societies leaped ahead. When Muslims tried to respond, argues Lewis, they confused Westernization (which they rejected) with modernization (which they sought). It's a bleak road map of missteps to the Islamic world of today, impoverished in almost everything but terrorism and despotism. And while Lewis never poses it directly, he leaves readers to ponder an explosive question: whether a religion rooted in the belief that all truth was revealed to its prophet can ever successfully embrace change...
...table, watching a neighbor receive preferential treatment because of his birth is divisive. "The key thing is to get all these guys into the E.U. as quickly as possible," says a Western envoy in Bucharest. Even then, ethnic ties will still run deeper than lines on a map...
...buying that followed last week's Enronitis outbreak makes one wonder how long Wall Street's suspicion will last. But if investors can keep it up long enough to make understandability of earnings reports as important as their profitability, they'll at least provide Congress with a road map of how re-regulation ought to proceed. (Not to mention that nothing motivates public officials like falling indexes.) And they might even do what beseiged free-marketeers fervently hope: fix the problem on their...
...either of them wins a medal at Salt Lake City officials shouldn't have to ask them to provide their own flags. The Kostelics have put Croatia on the skiing map for the first time and look set to keep it there...
...delicate balance between the obvious and the unexpected. Nobody, of course, could have foreseen the events of Sept. 11; the ruthlessness of the terrorists who swept away the pride of New York's skyline was as beyond prediction as it was beyond imagination. Yet it is possible to map out some of the aftershocks of that horrific event...