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...then came SARS. Unlike previous crises, which remained relatively focused in their impact, the contagion tarred every destination in East Asia with the same brush. In the late 1990s, Thailand and Hong Kong benefited from Indonesia's turmoil as travelers went to those two places in search of a safe haven. But with SARS, everybody lost. Although Thailand and Indonesia were virtually untouched by the virus, they suffered almost equally with the worst-hit destinations...
...that is where the danger lies for the Bush presidency. While continued turmoil in Iraq could begin to erode the public's faith in the President's honesty, it could also do something equally damaging: resurrect the public's pre-9/11 doubts about his competence. Not so long ago, voters seemed to believe that Bush's success in war meant he could lick any problem, from the economy to healthcare reform. But here's the flip side: qualms about his management of postwar Iraq could turn into doubts about all his policies. By nearly 2 to 1, Americans still...
...long term, Beijing is likely to avoid both extremes of cracking down or genuinely leaving Hong Kong alone. The most probable course might be an appeal to nationalism by blaming pernicious foreign influences for the current turmoil. At a meeting on July 9, according to my source, five top leaders agreed that the "deep background" to the Hong Kong events was interference from the U.S. Such an analysis differs only in degree, not in essence, from that which claimed the 1989 Tiananmen Square rallies were orchestrated by "a tiny minority" of "counterrevolutionaries"?with foreign backing, of course. None...
...over familiar Washington commodities: turf and money. Adams says members of Garner's team wanted to pay former Iraqi soldiers to perform cleanup and security tasks and were stunned when Bremer told them that was not going to happen (a decision he reversed, in part, after a month of turmoil). Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself, who had earned plaudits for overseeing humanitarian efforts in northern...
...ticker symbol ends in Q, that's the signal to "get out quick." A "Q" means the company is in bankruptcy, and even the pros say figuring out details of who gets what, and when, is difficult. "The information flow can be very sketchy. Management is in turmoil. It's a very imperfect market," says Jonathan Rosenthal, a partner at Saybrook Capital, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment bank that focuses on restructuring bankrupt companies...