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Throughout his life, Said was forced to defend his background—particularly in the face of criticism for his strong support for Palestinian nationalism despite his birth on what is now considered Israeli soil...
After the May 12 attacks, the House of Saud understood that it was under direct assault by an organization committed to its overthrow. Though bin Laden, a Saudi, long ago condemned the royal family for allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil starting in 1990, his group had refrained from violence within the kingdom. Its reasons were clear to U.S. intelligence. Says a former Bush Administration official: "There were al-Qaeda agents in the kingdom that urged al-Qaeda not to strike in Saudi Arabia because they [the Saudis] might cut off the spigot" of funds flowing to the group...
...they succeed overseas, however, trouble is brewing at home. As part of an agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO), India will apply international patent standards to its domestic pharmaceuticals market in 2005, ending three decades of protectionism and making it easier for multinationals to compete on Indian soil without being relentlessly copied. Currently, India's top 10 pharmaceutical companies spend only 3.3% of their revenues on research into new products?compared with the 10-15% their Western peers spend. Once the new patent laws are enforced, local drugmakers that don't want to be buried by multinationals will have...
...after CIA officials passed along Zubaydah's accusations to Riyadh and Islamabad. Washington, reports Posner, was shocked when Zubaydah claimed that "9/11 changed nothing" about the clandestine marriage of terrorism and Saudi and Pakistani interests, "because both Prince Ahmed and Mir knew that an attack was scheduled for American soil on that day." They couldn't stop it or warn the U.S. in advance, Zubaydah said, because they didn't know what or where the attack would be. And they couldn't turn on bin Laden afterward because he could expose their prior knowledge. Both capitals swiftly assured Washington that...
...home is no longer a fixed location. As a Taiwanese-born citizen raised in Costa Rica and the U.S., I am quite aware that more and more Asians are becoming citizens of the world. Although Pico Iyer wrote that "home nowadays has nothing to do with a piece of soil and everything to do with something I carry around inside me," I have a different reaction. Having recently made my own Asian journey home and with three identities deeply inculcated in me, I find it hard to adapt to wherever I live?except in my own house, where...