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...attack on the World Trade Center. Occidentalism might not provide a conclusive answer to the question "Why do they hate us?" But by relating how much of the rhetoric that fuels men like bin Laden came originally from the West, it makes the distinction between "them" and "us" murkier than we previously realized...
...Last week this minor scandal got murkier when the government announced that it paid the entire $12.9 million festival budget to the local American Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit organization best known for luncheons and tax advice. Amcham gave the money to a company designated to run the festival, Red Canvas Ltd., which turned out to be owned by the chairman of the chamber, American moving-company founder Jim Thompson, and his wife. "That's a private firm, and we don't have the right to check its books," says Fred Li, a member of Hong Kong's Legislative...
...address our deepest post-9/11 fears. Many will come on line in the next year or two. The effort recalls the last time we launched a concerted attempt to resist a mortal threat: World War II's Manhattan Project, which produced the Bomb. This time the enemy is murkier and the battle more diffuse. "There isn't going to be one big breakthrough, one killer app," warns Katrina Heron, former editor of Wired, who along with David Kuhn is co-editing a book for HarperCollins on science and technology in the age of terrorism. "There isn't going...
...wish list--to drop by for jam sessions out of which, they trust, songs will emerge. The Roots' Philadelphia studio has even been tricked out with a whole bunch of amenities so the band can play host to longer, later jam sessions. "We definitely want a darker, murkier texture," says Thompson. We'll know next year how well it works out. --By Christopher John Farley
...benefits of competition in the passenger sector are murkier. The British experience has been horrendous. Britain completed the privatization of its rail system in 1997, breaking the formerly integrated network known as British Rail into more than 100 different firms. At the center was Railtrack, which had the task of maintaining the tracks, signals and stations. It contracted out the work, resulting in spiraling costs and a record of erratic maintenance that had fatal consequences, including a 1999 collision between two trains outside Paddington Station in London that killed 31 people. Criticism of the safety record was heightened...