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The rhetoric of the anti-war movement has been replete with epic references to blood and oil, clashes of civilization. Debates concerning the war in Iraq have been deeply concerned with issues of morals—as it well should—but few have questioned the pragmatic premise that...
The speed with which the Iraqi regime disintegrated left little time for celebrating. Who was going to turn the electricity back on, restore order to the cities and prevent a civil war from breaking out between Arabs and Kurds in the north, between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in the...
If Harkness is proved right--and there's good reason to believe she will be--Americans can look forward to better economic times soon. Already, oil prices have plunged and the stock market has rallied. Despite all the anxiety over the war, retail sales surged 2.1% in March, and the...
Falling oil prices allow consumers to spend money they otherwise would have sent to Saudi Arabia. Crude peaked at $37.82 per bbl. in March and had tumbled to $27.35 by last week. Gasoline prices won't come down fast, but prices at the pump are already falling. The drop in...
Zdenek Adamec stopped understanding his son, also named Zdenek, when the boy was seven. "He asked me how a nuclear reactor worked," says the father, a tombstone carver. "I had to buy a book so I could give him some answers." Eleven years later, the son was still groping for...