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...YORK—Today in New York City, the president of the United States, the governor of the State of New York, the mayor of New York City and hundreds of thousands of people from across the globe will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...Americans have never been averse to mindless entertainment, but has there ever been a better time for a bit of farcical fluff? The economy's shaky, we may be headed off to war in Iraq, and as we near the one-year anniversary of September 11, we are all being forced (either by our own actual experiences or by an omnipresent media campaign) to revisit the pain and horror of that day. We could all use a break. The executives at Fox were lucky enough to have hit on the perfect programming to capitalize on our emotional exhaustion, providing...
...much good on the final exam. The 22-year-old son of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, was reportedly caught cheating with crib notes during a political science exam at Bangkok's Ramkhamhaeng University. According to local newspaper reports, Panthongtae signed a confession and could now face a one-year school suspension...
...money adds up. And despite the huge amounts discussed in the U.N. report, al-Qaeda's budget for mass murder doesn't necessarily need millions. Investigators believe the September 11 hijackers were financed mostly from abroad, by at least $325,000 funneled into the U.S. over a one-year period from operatives in the Persian Gulf - usually in apparently innocuous tranches of less than $10,000 that went into more than 35 different accounts. The whole operation is believed to have been undertaken for no more than $500,000 - a little over $26,000 per hijacker over a year...
...allowed in the bars.) Some 2 million customers visited the camptowns in 2000, the last year for which figures are available, according to Korea's Culture and Tourism Ministry. Troops at all the military installations in Korea are briefed on the consequences of engaging in illegal activities, including the one-year jail term that paying for sex can bring under U.S. military law. There are no briefings on the issue of trafficking, Taylor says: "It is probably something we will start to brief them...