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...Another element of the Indonesia model is the recognition that the words of militants matter more to other potential militants - say, young men thinking of joining a terror group - than some sermon from Muslim moderates. Yudhoyono has enlisted not just prominent clerics but militants themselves to combat extremist ideas; to cite one example, contrite former terrorists appear on television and admit how they shed Indonesian blood. It's a strategy that could work in other countries where there is already some public anger at terrorists. In Sri Lanka, for example, the government could play on the disgust many moderate Tamils...
America, like Europe, will eventually adopt more private roads and tolls. But the U.S. needs to adopt a new mindset as well. Infrastructure is a matter of homeland security, a concept that Dwight Eisenhower understood when he started the federal highway system during the cold war. The healthier a locale is before a disaster (or terrorist attack), the healthier it will be afterward. As we learned the hard way in New Orleans, the opposite is also true. But if we invest in strong levees, roads and rails, then even inevitable calamities will have fewer consequences. We will be able...
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...should that matter? It's all legal currency, no? Well, no. Not to Hollywood. Studios make most of their box-office money in the first 10 days of a movie's release, when they take in 90% of the movie's profits and the cinema owners, or exhibitors, get the rest. After two weeks, they generally split the proceeds 70/30 and then down from there. Spider-Man 3, the most successful movie in America so far this year, made 45% of its profits to date on the first weekend. Titanic, by contrast, made 5%. The studios don't just want...
...into an argument with his mother about who exactly could and could not get into heaven. Bush maintained that only born-again Christians were eligible for entrance, as he had been learning in his Bible study; Barbara Bush disagreed and telephoned Graham to let him settle the matter. The evangelist said that while the younger Bush's reading of the Bible might be technically correct, he warned both of them that no one should try to play God--for God alone knows who has or has not received Christ as their Saviour...