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Even in Las Vegas, Jesse Jantzen was the surest bet in town...
...past two months, our public conversation has changed almost beyond recognition; arguments that were unimaginable last summer are now the stuff of talk shows and chat rooms. Should we torture terrorist suspects? Embrace racial profiling? Seal the borders? Bust the budget? It may be the surest sign of a healthy democracy that in the wake of an attack that stopped a nation in its tracks, we have begun to move forward again in every direction, with less consistency but more urgency, engaged in an argument with ourselves and one another over what these times demand...
...style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since Western publishers are traditionally xenophobic themselves, few Japanese writers manage to negotiate the crossover. The coin of any realm?runaway domestic best sellerdom?is the surest ticket out of Japan. But occasionally literary laurels based on distinctive work over an extended career provide purchase...
...administration's thinking on its dispute with Moscow over the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the President replied the terror attacks has strengthened his case for missile defense and that he hoped they would convince Russia that the treaty was "outdated, antiquated and useless," And that may be the surest sign that the administration intends to live by its advice to the American people, to resume going about their business...
...INTERNATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE A bank open before breakfast? It's the surest sign of a boom. Laredo banks are open 7 to 7 daily, including Sundays. Walk into the main office of the IBC and listen: English rarely spoken here. Upstairs in the executive offices, executive vice president Gerald Schwebel explains that his mother is Mexican, his father Austrian; he went to school in Nuevo Laredo. Bilingual, binational, he is the whole global economy in a suit. Schwebel's bank, the biggest in town with assets of more than $6 billion, has a small fleet of jets...