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...President Obama aptly characterized the current recession recently as one caused by a "perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Yet the Obama phenomenon could be brewing a more perfect storm, wherein an F.D.R.-L.B.J. - style government would promote intrusions that could inflict great social, political and economic devastation on us. Daniel B. Jeffs, Apple Valley, Calif...
...Between the NYPD's counterterrorism bureau, the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force and a U.S. Attorney's office vastly experienced in national-security issues, "you have a perfect storm of anti-terror efforts in New York, and [the plotters] ran straight into it," Burton says. The city, along with Los Angeles, "has resources comparable to many countries," says James Carafano, a terrorism analyst at the Heritage Foundation. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
French news junkies have looked on in horror over the past few months as America's most august papers slashed staffs and in some cases morphed into exclusively online entities to weather the worst financial storm the industry has ever seen. On Thursday, however, some of that U.S. media pain hit closer to home, as French readers of the left-leaning Libération popped into newsstands to find their favorite daily nowhere to be found. The reason: managers of the financially troubled Libé decided not to publish on Ascension and five other national holidays throughout the year...
...will perform the same task half a dozen times over the next 24 hours, flitting from one ship to the next until dawn. "Too much work," Lee says, gesturing toward an ocean littered with vessels, from bulk carriers to oil tankers to tramp freighters. (Read "Riding Out the Economic Storm in Singapore...
...When the film was first released, Germany had so much trouble with its frolicking, tap-dancing SS Storm Troopers and gay Führer singing "Heil myself" that it wasn't shown in German cinemas until the mid-1970s. The musical opened on Broadway in 2001, and has played around the world, even sparking raucous laughter from Jews in Tel Aviv. But until now, no one had the nerve to host it in Berlin. Germans who wanted to see it had to go to London, New York City or Vienna. (See 10 things to do in New York...