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...reasons lie in the fact that we in the Muslim world have not been able to overcome the trauma caused by colonialism. We could not open up to the tools that modernity suggested, for the simple reason that they were introduced by way of colonialism. Our oil wealth allowed us to import the most expensive consumer commodities, but we could not overcome our suspicions of outside political and ideological goods: democracy, secularism, the state of law, the principle of rights and, above all, the concept of the nation-state, which was seen as a conspiracy to fragment our old empire...
...bear. "During the rescue," says Durm, "there was no time to process what was happening. It was later, when I had to pull dental records for identification and some of the victims were people I knew--I had performed root canals on a few of them--that the trauma really...
...traditionally had power, money and sex appeal. But in the real world, the physician-as-God is as dated as house calls and generous insurance plans, as J.D. discovers during his first day on rounds. His bosses care more about cash flow than care; he spends less time saving trauma victims than artificially prolonging the lives of patients who are all but dead; and the hospital is like a high school, where the cocky surgical interns are the jocks and medical interns like J.D. "are the chess club." This is the first sitcom...
Some victims were horrified at the prospect of holding stock in the company that caused them trauma, but, Medica argued, that might be the only way to generate enough money to compensate them. Investors felt saved. Sulzer Medica shares jumped 19% on Aug. 29, the day after a U.S. district judge gave the $780 million plan a preliminary nod. "If it holds, it will be replicated," says John Aldock, a Washington corporate defense attorney. Don't worry about Scruggs putting himself out of business. If the deal holds, he could receive as much as $25 million...
There's no way to know just how widespread the trauma-into-passion phenomenon is. But names for it, at least, are proliferating. "Apocalypse sex" is what Jeff Sonios calls his encounter with a woman he met at the Lakeside Lounge, an East Village bar that was hopping in the days after the disaster. Lindsay Oktay, a U.N. conflict-resolution expert who has weathered crises in Angola, Kenya and now Manhattan, prefers "Armageddon...