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...high levels of government, the awful possibility is dawning that things could have been different. "If we'd had access to Moussaoui, if we'd had access to the Phoenix memo, could we have broken up the plot?" asks a White House official who works on counterterrorism. Then he answers his own question: "We would have taken action, and there's at least a distinct possibility that we may at the very least have delayed it." Bush was outraged at the suggestion that he might have been warned about impending strikes and failed to act. To ward off Democratic criticism...
...know much about the intricacies of global trade, but she does know the power of "free marketing," as she calls it. Njeri, 45, sells vegetables outside the gas station on the Nairobi street where I live. Every morning she collects a few tomatoes, onions or beans from her tiny plot and spends the rest of the day selling what she can to passers-by and people who stop for petrol. Margins are small: Hannah makes just a few dollars a day, which she uses to help put her children through school. She would like to own her own greengrocery...
...stage musical two years ago, the Indian media went wild. Lloyd Webber had been captivated by Rahman's music, so he traveled to Bombay to meet the Asian master. If Rahman had been female and Lloyd Webber Indian and single, it could have been the perfect Bollywood film plot. A deal was struck, and Bombay Dreams, composed by Rahman and produced by Lloyd Webber and his Really Useful Group at a reported cost of $7 million, will open at London's Apollo Victoria theater on June...
...There is a certain irony in all this. At least for the foreseeable future, the damage done by an al-Qaeda bomb plot is likely to be miniscule compared to the kind of vast nuclear spasm "The Sum of all Fears" toys with. But fatalism is the only possible response to deadly games playing at that level. You can only hope the guys in suits also have their thinking caps on. If not, well Que Sera Sera as Hitch (with a little help from Doris Day) once memorably...
...publishers have promoted Wild Ginger as a great literary novel. One prerequisite of such a novel should be originality. Unfortunately, if you're familiar with the basic elements of Chinese Chick Lit, you already know these characters and have seen these plot twists before. On the rare occasion where Min tries to be innovative?such as a sex scene where the characters make love while reciting Maoist quotations?it just comes off seeming weird. If you like clichEd Chinese heroines and a hackneyed love story, all set against the now-too-familiar backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this...