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...amid rampant corruption and political infighting, economic turmoil and the increasingly violent fracturing of Indonesia that followed last year's bloodletting in East Timor. Christian-Muslim violence continues to rage in the Moluccas, while the mineral-rich provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya press more forcefully for independence - a scenario as unpalatable to the military as it is to the nationalist Megawati...
...Arguing for the first scenario is the fact that Americans are not only a fairly tolerant people but usually have short attention spans. Twenty-four/seven cable television may unnaturally inflame and prolong a story (Elian Gonzalez, let us say). But once it is over, it is over. New dramas and sensations supersede the old one, and in time people will not quite remember what a chad was. Further, it would be against the interests of blue America - self-destructive, in fact - for the Democratic leadership to overdo its righteousness and its demonization of the Bush administration. The columnist Michael...
...there are reasons to expect the second scenario. For one thing, the two chief channels of our discourse as a people, television and the Internet, encourage emotionalism and abhor compromise. Machines get more brilliant; people get more volatile, superficial, unreasonable...
Which is precisely the scenario that critics of airline consolidation are eager to avoid. Says Representative Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat: "It would be a travesty for the new Administration to let this go forward." Maybe, but few expect the Bush Administration to find the thrust reverser for this one. The President-elect hails from American's home state (CEO Carty was a big Bush contributor), and John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for Attorney General, comes from TWA's. Says Holly Hegeman, an aviation analyst and publisher of the website planebusiness.com "I really don't think we would have...
...narrow streets of Aniane, a village in the Languedoc region of southwest France, baying for his blood. Shadowy forces were spreading misinformation to trash the project Pearson had spent the previous two years putting together. Some seven months later, he recalled, "I told headquarters that in the worst-case scenario, this could end up like Elian Gonzalez...