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Stein was right on the money with his description of America's ignorant response to world sports. We rest-of-the-worlders are always amused when Americans refer to the winners of the World Series and the Super Bowl as "world champions." And exactly what world would that be? JIM ARMSTRONG Victoria...
...heart, Bush's speech will praise his corporate audience but also "call business leaders to a higher ethical standard," says one who has worked on it. Speaking in Manhattan, the president will refer to the "character of New York," after the attacks of 9/11, a suggestion that Wall Street should aim for the same standard. Throughout the week, cabinet secretaries will help make the big sell. Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, both ex-CEOs will speak to a town hall meeting of investor groups, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will assure people their pensions...
...books and is a writing teacher. Kaplan, 76, is a biographer and an editor, whose 1966 study Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain won a Pulitzer Prize. They live in a tony neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...
...during both terms.) In early 2000 the CIA identified two attendees of the meeting as Nawaz al Hamzi and Khalid al Midhar. The pair would eventually help hijack Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon. In 2000, while tracking the two, the CIA failed to refer them to the INS's terrorism watch list, allowing them to enter the U.S. A congressional intelligence source told TIME that there is "a significant possibility" that members of the CSG knew about the suspects' movements prior to Sept...
...well-aimed campaign even convinced the library to tweak the exhibit's panel text to better reflect the dark side of the Company's activities in China. "The Opium Wars marked a turning point in history," says campaign organizer Steve Lau, who runs the Web site www.britishbornchinese.co.uk. "Chinese refer to the next century as the 'hundred years of shame.'" The library seems blindsided by the controversy: it hadn't actually ignored the East India Company's opium trade, and the company was all but dead by the time the Opium Wars began. And who would have guessed economic history could...