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...Bush?s effort to align himself with the traditions of Islam may or may not work, but he did have some nice turns of phrase. The terrorists had "hijacked Islam itself"; their "pretenses to piety" rang false. Bush?s denunciation of "the will to power" was effective, although it was hard to believe that the President had ever read Nietzsche, who coined the phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely...
...Bush?s effort to align himself with the traditions of Islam may or may not work, but he did have some nice turns of phrase. The terrorists had "hijacked Islam itself"; their "pretenses to piety" rang false. Bush?s denunciation of "the will to power" was effective, although it was hard to believe that the President had ever read Nietzsche, who coined the phrase. No matter; most of us who got assigned him in college never made it through either. Bush made the essential point: The Enemy is not psychotic but cunning, possessing not an erratic temper but a steely...
Though the market dropped after the bell rang, earlier predictions of panicked selling were thankfully proven false. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan acted forcefully to maintain confidence, making half-point cuts in the interest rate to provide easier credit to businesses. The European Central Bank quickly followed suit, leading to a rally rather than a decline in European markets...
Until the bell actually rang, the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday - after its longest blackout since the "bank holidays" of the Depression - was hailed by every official personage, from President George W. Bush to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to NYSE chief Richard Grasso, as a victory for the capitalists over the terrorists...
...Next door is the church where my father preached, my mother played the organ and I pumped the bellows for it. Maybe that's where, subconsciously, I started getting interested in the pump, which is all the heart is, after all. I can remember as a boy when they rang a big bell in Beaufort West at 9 o'clock, and all the colored people had to leave town for the night. My father, however, would not accept any difference between white people and black or colored people. I learned that tolerance from my father, who said...