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...that they're easily offended - the Libyans are kind people who smile easily, and they respond with curiosity to outsiders. Probe a little deeper, though, and their feelings are very mixed. On the one hand, their satellite dishes and cell phones and Internet café s signal that they want to be part of the modern world from which they're isolated by sanctions - and from which Libya's rigidly organized social life discourages them from partaking. On the other hand, they feel unjustly victimized by the West, and many are ready to spring, unprompted, to Ghaddafi's defense...
...Smile for the camera. Peruvian corruption fighter quits after he is filmed taking a bribe...
...asked a sad, tired father in Gandherbal, 30 km from Srinagar, whose son had disappeared one night to go to Pakistan and never returned. What did you talk about at meals 20 years ago, I asked him? Did you discuss freedom and armed struggle? I managed to draw a smile. He said they had talked about college education, perhaps getting a doctor in the family. "No son asked his father before he joined," he sighed. "How do I know who talked to him, what they said? But every house has a lost...
...heard it here: 75 basis points (three quarters of a point) is what the Fed needs to put a smile on the face of the bond markets and the real economic bears, and it increasingly looks as if Greenspan is one of them. The Fed chairman went out of his way to declare during his Senate testimony last week that economic growth was "close to zero," and the board's consensus may well be that we're in a recession right...
...presidential transformations can be reversed. The presidential Nixon of 1969 ended as the bitter, thuggish ghost of San Clemente. Lyndon Johnson, messiah of the Great Society, finished his life as the King Lear of the Hill Country. And Bill Clinton, the shoeshine and the smile of the '90s, confirms everyone's worst suspicions as he departs...