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...more. Because as 2002 gets underway, stocks are sluggish. Manufacturing is contracting. And whereas just last Friday a spate of economic reports - consumer confidence, housing, manufacturing - had investors writing in the recovery in pen, the first trading day of the new year is featuring the beginnings of a pretty stern reality check...
...takes a special kind of courage to think about the unthinkable, and Jessica Stern has it. A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, Stern studies those who kill innocents for political gain. While others debate theories of terrorism from the safety of the ivory tower, Stern travels the world to meet those who actually commit the acts...
...Stern was among the first to realize that in a world in which holy war can be waged with suitcase nukes, the conventional wisdom about terrorists--that they stick to attacks with high profiles but low casualties--was dangerously misguided. "It is increasingly clear," she wrote in her 1999 book, The Ultimate Terrorists, "that not all terrorists feel that way." In the book, which begins with a scenario in which the Empire State Building is destroyed by a homemade nuclear bomb, she coined the term macro-terrorism to describe terrorist acts that result in mass casualties. On Sept. 11 macroterrorism...
...Stern believes the answer to our current crisis will come from talking to the perpetrators themselves, and she combs prisons and refugee camps for terrorists to see what drives them. "It's vital that somebody be listening," she says. "It's not just a question of solving political conflicts. It's also about extreme humiliation and deprivation. We can't resolve the issue without taking those factors into account...
...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...