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...possible attack. An efficient and effective public health care infrastructure will also be crucial. Physicians and emergency care workers should be trained to recognize known biological agents, and good communications will be needed to allow for the tracking of a new disease. An early-warning system could spell the difference between a small outbreak and major epidemic...
...should have had the foresight to realize that a marriage between a fanatical government and a fanatical multimillionaire would spell disaster for the rest of the world. But we should have had the foresight to address the Taliban problem long before Osama bin Laden came into the picture. We should have helped Afghanistan recover from the Cold War. Having missed that chance, we should have utilized diplomatic channels to bring Afghanistan back into the fold of the international community. Instead, we isolated it with economic sanctions, forcing it to rely on a millionaire terrorist for help. Nobody in Washington wanted...
...good thing could come from this horror: it could spell the end of the age of irony. For some 30 years--roughly as long as the Twin Towers were upright--the good folks in charge of America's intellectual life have insisted that nothing was to be believed in or taken seriously. Nothing was real. With a giggle and a smirk, our chattering classes--our columnists and pop culture makers--declared that detachment and personal whimsy were the necessary tools for an oh-so-cool life. Who but a slobbering bumpkin would think, "I feel your pain"? The ironists, seeing...
Many leagues, schools and conferences postponed all of their games indefinitely, without feeling compelled to spell out their reasons. Who needed explanation...
There's a sweet dizziness to Cantopop fandom that's reminiscent of the innocent bobby-sox frenzy of the Sinatra years. At Lau concerts, his fans hold up flash cards that spell out his name in English; a group of votaries rented a minibus and trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People...