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...land of plenty, we tend to treat everyday problems like major crises. Until Tuesday, the measure of Bush rested on whether he or the Democrats would be the first to open up a lockbox that doesn't even exist. The bar for his success was keeping the looming recession shallow and short...
...around that time that Rudy heard about a fourth plane. It had slammed into Somerset County, Pa., only two counties away from his home in Waynesburg. Today all the Marisas are grateful to be alive. As they know, it is only shallow men who discount luck. --By John Cloud...
...Shallow men believe in luck," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, but World Trade Center employees who happened to miss work on Sept. 11 must think him a fool. We heard these stories all week, and they gave us a national case of goose bumps: the bus from Staten Island missed for the first time in four years, the car that needed repairing, the long-debated trip to Israel taken last week that proved safer than staying home. Even the most rational person lists toward superstition after hearing the stories. Was there a reason? Is God making choices...
...land of plenty, we tend to treat everyday problems like major crises. Until Tuesday, the measure of Bush rested on whether he or the Democrats would be the first to open up a lockbox that doesn't even exist. The bar for his success was keeping the looming recession shallow and short...
...comes as one of the biggest surprises in the emerging Bush II era that Colin Powell, the man many thought would walk into the presidency himself a few years ago, is leaving such shallow footprints. By the cruel calculus of Washington, you are only as powerful as people think you are. Powell's megastar wattage looks curiously dimmed, as if someone has turned his light way down. People who like the Administration's foreign policy credit it to Bush, not Powell. People who don't, wonder where he is. Leaders abroad are not certain he is the definitive voice...