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...then in movies like Dr. Strangelove. (TV worked more elliptically, through cold-war anxiety parables such as those on the Twilight Zone, which, by the way, returns this fall on UPN, hosted by Forrest Whitaker.) If a writer turned Beene's bomb-shelter scene into a bioterror scare in a sitcom set in the present, it wouldn't make it past the first-draft stage at a major network. Perhaps that's the hidden value of cultural nostalgia. It hints that the past was not better but worse than today, allowing us to exorcise forbidden thoughts about the present...
...hope that all members of the Harvard Community will join in rejecting Attorney General John Ashcroft’s message to critics of the Bush administration’s domestic anti-terrorism measures delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this,” Ashcroft said. “Your tactics only aid terrorists—for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America?...
...even if he can't shame them into action, President Bush may well manage to scare them - his "if Iraq wants to avoid war" mantra was an unmistakable warning that if the UN can't stop Saddam's scofflaw pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, Washington is more than ready to do so alone. And what the European and Arab allies want more than anything else is to avoid a war whose consequences they fear will be more devastating than any threat posed by Saddam right now. It is fear of what the U.S. may do that has galvanized France...
...this feels like dEja vu, it should. The last banking scare arose only in March. Then, a brief uptick in stock prices allowed banks to report better than expected financial results. But the worries have returned with the recent souring of the global economy. The bank sector's bad loans have increased relentlessly, growing 64% to $302 billion between March 1997 and September 2001. Despite its promises to overhaul the financial system, and hints last week of another economy-boosting package, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has done nothing substantive to alleviate the problem. Just last week...
...still await an apology, let alone compensation. Only then, they say, will they be able to move on. In the meantime, they continue to pass their angry distrust down to their children. "We have a tradition," says Huang, who caught the plague from his dead friend's socks. "We scare naughty kids by warning, 'The Japanese planes are coming...