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...officials and foreign terrorism experts puzzle over a significant feature of the new terrorism wave: nearly all the victims are Muslims. For years, despite its vow to overthrow corrupt Muslim regimes, al-Qaeda showed little interest in staging attacks in the heart of the Islamic world. But starting on May 12, when at least nine Arabs were among the 26 victims in the first Riyadh attack, al-Qaeda and its surrogates seem to have abandoned any concerns about causing Muslim deaths or alienating Muslim public opinion. "You have Islamist terrorists attacking innocent victims as an indirect manner of striking Arab...
...Saudis with box cutters torpedoed our innocence. Right then, like our cell phones, our culture stopped working for a minute. What sense could the old Dave Matthews make when Dave Letterman was weeping on air? For one long winter, no one knew what the hell to do, except to vow that we would never be the same...
...banner for dwelling upon “intangible” effects of the ongoing war in Iraq, such as the thousands dead Iraqi civilians and the deterioration of healthcare, jobs, and education in our communities due to unprecedented war-bloated deficits. We are truly sorry; from here on, we vow to leave such intangible problems to the philosophers...
...Arroyo's vow to eschew campaigning in order to govern better clearly backfired. Restive members of the military led a mini-coup attempt against her in July, and husband Miguel was embroiled in a financial scandal. She announced her latest decision at a Saturday rally, saying: "I will offer myself as the leader with the experience and vision." Surveys suggest that might be a triumph of hope over experience. A public opinion poll for the ABS-CBN network shows Arroyo has the support of only 16%, behind two other potential candidates. But Arroyo is banking on further acts of divine...
...with the other," says Elie Cohen, an economist and professor at Sciences Po, a Paris graduate research institute. "That creates a credibility problem." The government clearly botched the announcement of the new taxes, but Cirelli insists taxpayers still end up ahead. And the government bravely stands by Chirac's vow to reduce income tax by 30% before 2007 as a way - "a little bit American," Cirelli confesses - of forcing spending cuts. But cost cutting hasn't been seriously tackled yet; the 2004 budget holds inflation-adjusted spending level rather than reducing it, which makes getting...