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...fight not out of choice but out of necessity. Yet as the American public once again faces the prospect of combat in a foreign land, it is with an unease that will not go away. You can hear it if you talk to the early-dinner crowd at the Ocean Breeze Restaurant in famously bellwether Macomb County, Mich. Owner Tom Moragianis voted for President Bush but now is concerned that a prolonged engagement in Iraq could be a mortal blow to an already ailing economy. Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant...
...planning to open a boutique yacht club because there isn't a single one between the Suez Canal and Phuket. "I now term this part of southern Sri Lanka as the Serendip Riviera. The stretch from Galle to Tangalla will in time become the best address in the Indian Ocean." Amanresorts, the ultra-chic chain run by Adrian Zecha, is moving in too. Zecha is restoring Galle's New Oriental Hotel, a 300-year-old Dutch barracks that was converted into a hotel by the British in the early 19th century. During the civil war, visiting foreign correspondents were usually...
...most serious destabilizing national security threat in the 21st century. Global warming has the potential to change our earth far more dramatically than anyone dreamed possible. By the end of the century, we will have doubled the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, ravaged many of the oceans fisheries and destroyed a good portion of arable farmland. Rising water levels may cause the Bangladesh to descend into the Indian Ocean. Expensive dikes will have to be put up around Florida to prevent a similar occurrence. Nations will fight bloody, genocidal wars fo rights to waters equal or smaller in size...
...into violent practice: North Korea launched an aggressive war in 1950, regularly kidnapped foreign nationals and is already a force in the global drug and arms trades. (Imagine if a shipment of Scud missiles was intercepted coming from Iraq, as a North Korean shipment was in the Indian Ocean last December. What are the chances the U.S. would allow that vessel to continue onward to Yemen?) Add to this North Korea's economic desperation?the country doesn't have the natural resources that Iraq can still exploit to somewhat mollify a collapsing standard of living?and it would seem that...
...more alien than an American? The editors of Oxford’s campus weekly solicited The Crimson for a columnist and Fenster, who is a familiar face among the ranks of The Crimson op-ed team, volunteered. He soon found himself in an enviable situation—an ocean separates himself from the scrutiny of his editors and a weekly allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic he pleases. The column is even published uncensored, so as to preserve all that is genuinely American. The objective was to get the Harvard spin on Oxford and eventually...