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...things fear of the unspecified does is to broaden and shrink the context of one's life simultaneously. Because of Sept. 11, one is made jarringly aware of living in the wider world, and one's private vanities are properly discarded. At the same time, because that wider world means menace, one is also spooked into blanket-over-the-head thinking. Should I sit in a crowd at a ball game? Send the kids to school? Go down to the kitchen...
...pain will they inflict on the markets? They don't teach Terrorism 101 in business school. In the wake of the attacks, analysts across Asia slashed their GDP growth forecasts to reflect market "uncertainties." The Daiwa Institute of Research in Tokyo, for example, says Japan's anemic economy will shrink by 0.1% this year, rather than grow at the earlier forecast 1.1%. Banks that had expected Hong Kong's economy to expand by 1% to 2% this year are now predicting a contraction. But as the word "uncertainty" suggests, the numbers are almost utterly arbitrary and could change with...
...them. Then terror, fury, fear of the times to come, hatred for the perpetrators, vague guilt and, most of all, a kind of emotional homelessness. Western Muslims like me have become, yet again, the enemy within, for both sides. All Muslims are now seen as potential terrorists. People will shrink away from my son, who looks like a handsome Pathan. Abuse and attacks, already started, will get worse. We may have to hide our Muslim identities just as Jewish people had to hide theirs during the war. Fanatic Muslims here and elsewhere hate us too because we are "polluted...
...talented Jennifer Esposito does what she can in a role that was created purely in service of the plot, while Douglas’ character remains stoic and resolute, if you can believe it, despite the tremendous pressure he’s under. Oliver Platt surfaces briefly as a deceitful shrink whose better lines were most likely left on the cutting room floor...
...according to their own interests,” “those without power envy those who have it,” “men seek honor as well as riches.” Those among us who view bias as an absolute bar to objective judgment would shrink from making such universal claims on the residents of a faraway place and time. Yet the ease with which accusations of bias are made instead makes this pop psychology the highest authority...