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Some Americans escaped into a wistful fantasy that Saddam Hussein would vanish, the hard way. Said Leigh Ginn of Dallas Bluff, Ga.: "It seems like the CIA has the power to do that. It sounds like I'm a murderer, but goodness, look at the people he's going to murder if there...
...their portfolios shrink to about $35 million, since the government now owned the firm's loans and most other assets. Owners of Bank of New England stock, which fell from $9 a share a year ago to about 50 cents a share just before the bankruptcy, saw their investments vanish. The losers included CBS president Laurence Tisch and his brother Preston, who held some 500,000 shares they acquired last year as part of a contrarian strategy of investing in troubled banks in the hope of a rebound...
Once the avoidance begins to work, the patient cares less about the diagnosis. Fear loses its power to instruct. Urgency vanishes before magic. The country glides into a toxic subjectivity. The eyes glaze a little, and clouds close over the glimpse of death. The problem will vanish, the earth will get well. The mind billows off to locate better memories, if it can (old glories, myths of its own innocence, old muscles, resources long since squandered, wars won when the nation was young and saved the world, when its virtue shone and sped by on tail fins). Americans con themselves...
...there be than the mother of the nation failing her people? Having come to power as emblems of national emotions, women leaders like Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro remain at the mercy of those emotions. Their original strength lay in their symbolism, but without substance, their legacies are bound to vanish...
With thousands of jobs and whole communities at stake, the timber industry asks how the U.S. can afford to save the northern spotted owl and the forest it inhabits. Environmentalists, fearful the rich legacy of old growth will vanish, wonder how we can afford...