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...Sept. 11 changed the rules: from New York to the tiniest American towns, people began playing the everything-bad-can-happen-to-me game, the instigation of which is the basic objective of terrorism. But at the same time, some New Yorkers, desperate for some shred of comfort, started playing a new version of the old game - I don't work on Wall Street, we told ourselves, I'm not in a tall enough building, and so on. In the media, our inoculation of choice was an old truism: terrorists don't kill their publicists...
Blair's presentation of the British case, combined with the U.S. evidence offered to NATO, seems to have been persuasive. A NATO diplomat told TIME that "the sheer weight of information"--rather than any single piece of intelligence--left the ambassadors of all 19 NATO countries "without a shred of doubt" about al-Qaeda's complicity. And on Thursday the predominantly Islamic nation of Pakistan gave the case against bin Laden a major vote of confidence when Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Riaz Khan said the Pakistani government sees "sufficient grounds for indictment" of the Saudi exile...
...sure was a strange way to launch a rehabilitation, as one of his advisers later admitted. The Levy family began firing back within an hour. Lawyer Billy Martin appeared on Nightline to shred Condit's claim that the Levys made a "specific request" that he not discuss the details of the relationship. "Ted, he's hiding," Martin said, "and I wish he would answer the question. What was his relationship with Chandra?" D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey was subtler. "One could say that he answered every question that Connie Chung asked him; he answered every question that we asked...
...shred, sources close to the Levy family concede. But the demand by unnamed Levy "family sources" that police find and question Darrell Condit, who was arrested Saturday on an unrelated charge (a DUI parole violation), served its purpose. It gave reporters a new angle to cover in a case that has been cold almost from the beginning. And that kept the pressure on police to continue looking for Chandra Levy--and on Congressman Gary Condit to provide whatever he may know about how and why she vanished...
Japan's Finance Minister, KIICHI MIYAZAWA, is regarded as the island of calm in the chaotic sea that passes for Japan's government. A former Prime Minister, the octogenarian was persuaded to stay on and lend a shred of credibility to an unpopular administration when YOSHIRO MORI came to power last April. So Miyazawa's unusually frank remarks last week about Japan's economy carried a particularly powerful punch. The country's finances, he said, "are near a state of collapse." The yen quickly slid to 20-month lows. Within days, Mori revealed to government insiders that he intends...