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...another certainty for 2002 is the response by those who suffer such attacks. We can expect America's "war on terrorism" to continue in various forms and locations ranging from Afghanistan and the Philippines to, perhaps, Iraq or Somalia, with attendant peril for soldiers and civilians alike. In 2002 concern over "homeland security" will mean more long lines at airport checkpoints and lengthy backups at border posts...
September 11 reminded Americans that we ignore international terrorism at our peril. There were a few warning bells leading up to the attack, but unfortunately none were loud enough or clear enough to alert America’s intelligence community to the impending danger. The United States can never again afford to be complacent about threats to America’s homeland or its allies...
...know is found in television and in newspapers; often in-depth information is called for. Lukacs, in "Five Days in London," points out that many of the citizens of London, in the days before the German air attacks in World War II, were living in blissful ignorance of the peril they faced: "The people of Britain [were] largely unaware of the immediacy of the dangers that faced them....When it came to secret or sensitive matters the government would rely much less on peremptory state censorship than on the habitual self-censorship of the newspapers' editors and of their reporters...
Above all, remember that companies that do nothing of value must obscure that fact by hiring the best people to appear dynamic and innovative while doing such meaningless work. As such, you ignore recruiting Harvard students at your peril. Recruiting Harvard students is a long-standing tradition at your firms (dating back at least to the mid ’80s), it is the only thing you do well (see above), and it is the only thing that will keep your firms from capsizing in this stormy economic climate. So, if you want me, you’re going...
...question now is whether Redford still sells. Unlike Michael Douglas, who is 57, Redford hasn't courted a younger audience. He turned down the 1997 President-in-peril action film Air Force One, for example, because "it felt like it was approaching a cartoon." (Harrison Ford took the job, and the picture earned $300 million worldwide.) Redford says that when reading scripts these days, he misses "wit and subtlety. You either bring the audience in or you go out there and hammer them in the face to get their attention. That seems to be the general state of things. That...