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...cheerleaders, boost the market, because it is normal to want to get rich. Feel your feelings, say the grief counselors, because anger is normal and anguish is cleansing and there's nowhere to hide in any case. A party store in Texas gets an order for 10 of its Osama bin Laden piñatas from a California therapist who says she wants them for her patients. Take a gamble, come to Las Vegas, say the ads for the convention bureau, because "it's time to get away." But that doesn't mean we are arriving at normal...
...matter of hours, Kandahar had become one of the most dangerous places on earth: both the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and suspected Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden have houses there. "What are you waiting for?" a neighbor yelled at Barasna. "It's suicide to stay here." A turbaned Taliban commander in a Land Cruiser roared by, kicking up dust, heading for the moonlit road across the desert to Pakistan. "Look at the Taliban run," the neighbor shouted before running inside to pack his belongings. Later that night, Barasna, an energetic woman in her early 30s, donned her head...
...When General Pervez Musharraf announced that Pakistan would cooperate with the U.S., he knew that radicals and sympathizers of accused mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Taliban host would take to the streets in protest. But it was, Pakistan's President calculated, what had to be done: one-part realpolitik, one-part leap of faith. There are risks, of course. He is courting chaos and possibly violence, but the rewards?the end of international sanctions, debt relief, millions of dollars in aid for refugees?could mean legitimacy abroad and perhaps, eventually, something approaching stability at home. Musharraf's acquiescence...
...Hitler invaded hell," Winston Churchill proclaimed during World War II, "I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil." Replace Hitler with Osama bin Laden and you have the sense of the current moment. The order of world devilry changes?and with it the alliances between good and evil, black and white, which make up the gray world in which we actually live...
...crusade. "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists," he said in his address to the U.S. Congress. In other words, there can be no neutral ground. That has presented the world with a difficult choice, because the nature of the U.S. military campaign against Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and other yet-to-be-named culprits is still largely undefined...