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...what Hindus call Pralaya-an overwhelming destruction and natural catastrophe. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that another tsunami of similar magnitude is unlikely to occur in our lifetime. Kizhanatham R. Srivarahan Chennai, India Rapid Reaction Required I was appalled by President Bush's slow response to the tsunami disaster in South Asia [Jan. 10]. By waiting until three days after the event to make a public statement, he appeared cold and indifferent. Bush will be asking Congress to come up with billions of dollars this year for the Iraq war and related costs there...
...Carson's case the title may for once have been apt. What we lost when we became a republic was a sense of the slow sweep of history. Our Presidents serve for four to eight years--even F.D.R. went just over 12. Carson ruled the Tonight Show for nearly 30: enough time for a baby to be born, grow up and have babies of her own; enough time to span a real historical era. He took to the air in 1962, weeks before the Cuban missile crisis. He departed in 1992, just months after the breakup of the Soviet Union...
...does not have a tropp shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq. If the slow-moving, bureaucratic Pentagon would take the obvious step and redeploy some of these troops, there would be no talk of a shortage...
...past propped up struggling SOEs with loans from state banks. But China's banking system is awash in bad loans, so now Beijing prefers companies to raise capital by going public. "Stock markets should be a vigorous entrepreneurial way to promote capitalism, but China uses them to manage the slow decline of state companies," says Matthew Rudolph, a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs in Hanover, New Hampshire, who is writing a book on China's markets. Investors "are just helping the government manage domestic politics," he adds...
...What prolonged the media attention, other than the reach of the star's eminence and the need to fill air time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade...