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...It’s like four people wrestling over the wheel that steers a ship,” Mead said...
When Andris made it to Vienna in 1956, he had $20. With other refugees, he sailed for two weeks across a stormy North Atlantic, on a crowded, smelly ship whose crew included the first Asians and blacks Andris had ever seen. When the refugees got to Brooklyn, they couldn't see the Statue of Liberty. Never mind. Andy Grove began a new life on an opposite shore of history...
...that however much the left and right wings may disagree about the most promising path to peace, the goal is shared, as is the awareness of just how hard it may be to reach it. Benjamin Cerniglia is a Marine corporal at Camp Pendleton in California, awaiting orders to ship out at any time; his brother Joseph, 18, is a college student in Greensboro, N.C., and an avowed pacifist. They had an e-mail fight three weeks after the attacks and have barely communicated since. "He thinks I am anti-American, which I'm not," says Joseph, "and I think...
...from the Middle East seems an inevitable piece of common sense; it is no longer a matter of pulling people over merely for Driving While Black. After Sept. 11, I was a guest on an African-American radio show in Detroit. Almost every one of the callers wanted to ship Detroit's entire Muslim community back to the countries they came from. The New Paradigm goes in for abusive political incorrectness that would have been censured under the Old Paradigm. The New Paradigm is not always a nice one. Wartime encourages a certain bracing ruthlessness. But be careful when...
...wedding, the ham in every sandwich and, lately, the mullah in every mountain. Rivera, a veteran foreign correspondent, talked his way out of his $4 million-a-year contract after parent company NBC declined to send him to Afghanistan. Fox News grabbed the talk-show host and plans to ship him out mid-November. Rivera says he has contacts with the Northern Alliance; he previously reported from Afghanistan on the drug war. "As much as I love my CNBC program, I can't stay anchored to my desk any longer," he said. "I hope to be able to report...