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...clear that Solanka is an unashamed alter-ego to Rushdie; both have been married twice, both attended Cambridge, both were born in Bombay. It is not unreasonable to assume that the fury of the title, a fury with the ever increasing pace and inhumanity of modern life and the pain of loss, has been shared by both men. It is that fury which Solanka has come to New York to flee, to lose himself in the all consuming metropolitan monster. “Eat me, America,” he pleads, but instead America, like the well-gorged monster that...
...nation, we are deeply grateful to our fellow democracies who were so quick to voice their outrage, commiserate in our pain and declare their loyalty and unity in demanding and pursuing the swift execution of justice. The eloquent statement of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which he declared that Britain stood “shoulder to shoulder” with the United States in its hour of need, went far beyond the requirements of alliances and treaty obligations to express true solidarity...
...little by way of conventional military power. Estimates of the number of men under arms in his Afghanistan camps at any one point seldom range above 2,000. But those men are extremely well-trained, well-funded and have shown a fanatical willingness to die in order to inflict pain on their enemies. Technology and globalization have made their reach almost boundless, and they are linked to a vast network of terrorist groups throughout the Muslim world from western China and the Philippines all the way across to Algeria...
...Unlike the congressmen, who are starting to sweat profusely about the 2002 midterms, stupid, George W. Bush can afford to be patient - recessions are generally two-year beasts at most. While he tries to walk the political line in the interim between feel-your-pain and scare-you-silly, Bush isn't ready to offer much more than photo-ops and the $300 tax rebates he's already sent out. For now, and until the quasi-recession turns real, that's all he can afford...
...Hong Kong is not quite dead, but it is bleeding. It badly needs leaders that can rally the community to accept short-term pain for long-term benefit. Otherwise, Hong Kong in 10 years' time won't be a "Manhattan," let alone its "Plus," but something more like a "Shanghai Minus...