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While there is no excuse for intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to fail in their duty to protect us, we can show some understanding of their shortcomings. What we cannot forgive is any cover-up of the truth--if you screw up, at least don't lie to us. Obfuscation engenders in Americans a pure lack of trust for their most important institutions. Considering only the numerous cover-ups since Watergate, I feel it is not surprising that Americans are steadily losing faith in their government. JERRY LUPU Albany...
...fencing--and it's politically charged, as it requires demarcating a line between the Israelis and the Palestinians that no Israeli government has yet been prepared to draw. But Sharon, who long opposed a fence, was forced to accede to calls that the government do something dramatic to protect civilians from terrorists. Those calls reached a climax last week when a car bomber killed 17 Israelis by detonating 220 lbs. of explosives alongside a bus in northern Israel. "We just need to stop the murder of Israelis," says a Defense Ministry official, explaining the simple logic of the fence. "That...
...Second, Padilla's arrest and subsequent detention sparked considerable concern - as well as a vocal debate - over the fate of civil liberties in a time of war, raising once again one of the fundamental questions of the post 9/11 world: How do you keep the country safe and still protect the Constitution...
Another suggestion is for business leaders to "think politically." This advice is key to events such as downsizing. Say the authors: "People are willing to make sacrifices if they see the reason why. Indeed, boys go to war with the blessings of their parents to protect values more precious than life itself. So it becomes critically important to communicate in every way possible the reason to sacrifice." Acknowledge people's loss when they are making sacrifices at work, advise the authors. "Grieve with them and memorialize the loss. This might be done with a series of simple statements, but often...
When Pascal Khoo Thwe was a baby, his grandmother spat three times on his head while muttering tribal incantations to protect him "from evil people and all misfortune." With all respect to the Padaung people of remotest Burma, the spit-and-spell routine didn't do much good. Poverty, dictatorship, sickness, war: Khoo Thwe had to overcome all manner of evils before finally escaping Burma to study at the University of Cambridge?the first Padaung tribesman to do so. Khoo Thwe tells the story of this escape in From the Land of Green Ghosts (Harper Collins; 304 pages), a memoir...