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...potentially rich. It is now conventional wisdom that the Arab economies are "failures" because they have wasted their oil wealth. After the recent death of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan guerrilla leader, we were told that his nation should be one of the richest in Africa--all those diamonds and precious metals under the jungle...
...even eulogy - as expos?. It may seem more so today, when some of us get a wistful kick seeing how nattily the nasties dressed back then, as if for the funeral of those character they were trying to assassinate. Like all old movies, this one is a documentary: a precious, permanent record, not just of the vanished Broadway landmarks, the mausoleums of cafe society, the media mammoths at the very moment they were becoming dinosaurs, but of a bygone film style and an acting style. Today, that sort of directorial and behavioral efficiency is, alas, as dead as the Stork...
...these rebels—known as the Abu Sayyaf—need to be eliminated, but even taking into account the two American hostages held by the group, the regional nature of the Abu Sayyaf’s activities calls into question the need for such vast expenditures of precious military resources...
...take me out of town, however. That required a bit more planning. Once again I used history as my guide. For hundreds of years the Chao Phraya served as the main entrance to central Thailand. Immense wooden barges patrolled its banks, exchanging cargos of teak and rice for gold, precious stones and imported goods from abroad. The ancient Thai capital of Ayuthaya was considered to be the entryway to Asia and ambassadors from as far away as France, Portugal and Japan camped at its doorstep seeking concessions and passage from the Thai Kings. Some of the old teak rice barges...
...knew that there would be backlash [after Sept. 11] because of all the negative images,” said Precious R. Muhammed, a graduate of HDS. She said recent events reflect a pattern of how media represents Muslims that she first noticed following the Oklahoma City bombing...