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HONG KONG EPIDEMIC The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) continues to rage, with nearly 1,550 people infected - and 54 dead - in 14 countries, including 51 suspected cases in the U.S. There was hopeful news as investigators announced that they had identified a new virus, part of the coronavirus family (linked to the common cold), as the likely cause of the disease. But some of that progress could unravel, thanks to a decision by Hong Kong officials to green light last weekend's annual rugby tournament featuring teams from 24 countries. With more than 400 cases...
...truth is that Hollywood loves a good war, or a bad one, almost as much as Wall Street did last week. For one thing, the outbreak of war means that, 10 or 20 years down the road, someone will make an honest film denouncing it. ("All Quiet on the Western Front" came a dozen years after WWI ended, "Patton" 25 years after WWII, "MASH" 17 years after Korea and "Platoon" more than a decade after the last U.S. helicopter escaped Saigon.) For another, war gives members of the industrial-entertainment complex - a business designed to offer diversion from the little...
...Iraqi people may deserve a better government, but would they (and the rest of the Islamic world) accept an American protectorate? This would lead to an outbreak of terrorism and could destabilize moderate Islamic countries. How can the Bush Administration be so shortsighted? Iraq may not be the only country that needs a better President. MORENA NANNETTI Munich...
...brink of war, the world suffered a spectacular outbreak of foolishness last week. Few countries or institutions were spared. The absurd adventures of the Bush Administration, the British, the French and the Guineans have been widely reported. Donald Rumsfeld's latest act of indecent exposure--he insulted our closest ally, Britain--was duly noted (but publicly ignored, once again, by the President, who seems not to mind such behavior). Assorted Europeans, celebrities and the New York Council worked themselves into a fatuous lather over the arrogance of American power. And American conservatives blamed it all on the U.N. "As each...
...Outbreak: Asian Contaigion