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...afraid to fly, he called in a bomb threat to his own airline. One woman who escaped her World Trade Center office was worried she was not feeling things enough; so she got a tattoo on her wrist, a survivor's code, to help her remember what pain felt like. The tattoo reads...
...pain looks likely to spread to other industries as corporate profits get hit. Many companies, such as Intel and United Technologies, are bracing for the call-up of the Reserves, which will sap those organizations of expertise that isn't easily replaced. And new, tougher security measures for cargo at airports, shipping ports and border crossings could disrupt the just-in-time supply chain that has been one of the key accelerators of growth during the past decade. Companies could be forced to carry higher, costlier levels of inventory. With critical parts delayed at the U.S.-Canada border, Ford, General...
...Kevin Reinhart, professor of religion at Dartmouth. "No. We've done some specific things that are perceived as reflecting either an indifference to or a hostility to Muslims." Islamic radicals keep a list of what they consider our casual cruelty, although their definition of who is inflicting the pain sometimes includes all of Christendom. They list the U.S. sanctions against Syria, Libya, Iran and Sudan--all Muslim countries (and all, not coincidentally, considered by the State Department to be sponsors of terrorism). They list the U.S. missile strikes in 1998 on a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical...
...against this new terrorism, the U.S. will have to win over local Muslim communities who may be sheltering the men of hatred. They will not cooperate if they are being bombed and diminished daily by American policies or if there is no attention paid to their pain. Would you expect any Iraqi today to hand over unambiguous support for U.S. or British policies after what the sanctions have done to his life? Americans and other Westerners have not shown concern for ordinary suffering Muslims around the world. Just a few months ago Jemima Khan, the daughter of Britain...
...needless abuse. Compers of the Lampoon’s literature board—the writers—meet with established ‘Poonsters at “office hours.” The metaphor is telling. The people who make these organizations’ processes such a pain aren’t imitating real businesses; this isn’t how real magazines or newspapers hire staff. They’re mimicking Harvard itself...