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Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the anti-money-laundering cause has sprung back to life. The Bush Administration, which is trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden's cash in tax havens and secret bank accounts, has suddenly got religion about tracking down terrorists' assets, know-your-customer laws for banks and an array of other tools on law enforcement's wish list. The antiterrorism bill the Bush Administration sponsored, augmented by tough money-laundering provisions proposed by Democrats, sailed through the Senate. But late last week House Republican leaders Dick Armey and Tom Delay thwarted efforts to include...
...OSAMA & BERT? American culture is so powerful it permeates even anti-American protests. Last week Pakistani demonstrators carried posters of Osama bin Laden seated next to grouchy Sesame Street straight man Bert. The pictures were apparently downloaded from one of many websites publishing parody images of the Muppets in compromising positions. Sesame Street executives were none too pleased. You can find the images on the Web by searching for "Bert bin Laden...
...DIARY Like it or not, says TIME Asia correspondent Tim McGirk, Pakistan is a place where young girls moon over Osama bin Laden as if he were a rock star. Read about Tim's negotiations with protesters and religious taxi drivers in his weekly dispatches from the front. time.com/mcgirk...
...counterstrike might follow last week's air attacks on Afghanistan. But we did not expect that it would come so soon or that the weapon of choice would be videotape. About an hour after the bombing campaign began, Americans were dumbstruck to see the placid face of the enemy, Osama bin Laden, in their living rooms. Outside a secret cave hideout, a Kalashnikov rifle beside him, he directly challenged the official U.S. line by casting the fight, in flowery classical Arabic, as one between Islam and the West. "America," he said, "will never taste security and safety unless we feel...
...times have changed even for the most super among us. It's hard to imagine teen Clark or the Tick enlisting to fight against Osama bin Laden (though al-Qaeda actually fits the mold of the comics' stateless supervillains better than Hitler and Tojo did). But both series ring differently after Sept. 11 in ways that will test how the conflict has affected pop culture. Smallville's most interesting character is not Clark but Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), who will someday become Superman's enemy but here, for now, is a lonely if cynical rich kid who wants...