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...deal with the ever changing face of terrorism? Good question! As with a stray weed, we need to destroy its roots; trimming a few leaves won't do. Searching cars and people at airports is a weak, pathetic response. We need decisive and sustained action against the organizations that recruit, brainwash and train terrorists. Unfortunately, we seem to be pouring all our efforts and resources into alleviating the symptoms rather than fighting the disease. Noru Tsalic, COVENTRY, ENGLAND...
...scholarly types fell in love with these preoccupations: with his view of men as weak connivers and women as the wise life force; with the trickery of art (in his dark, delightful comedy The Magician); with his studies of sexual alienation (The Silence), his inside investigations of minds tumbling into madness (Through a Glass Darkly) or muteness (Persona); with his trips into the poignant past (Wild Strawberries); especially with his long battle with God, to which he devoted an entire trilogy. Bergman made anguish sexy, emotional neediness a turn-on. We had no reservation in naming him the world...
...Grace are nobody's damsels in distress, but this is not a "TV discovers strong women" story. TV has had no shortage of female cops and young babes with superpowers (see NBC's Bionic Woman, this fall). Rather, TV has found women leads who are strong but also weak, like Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) of FX's The Riches, a drug addict and ex-con (and current con artist). Or criminal but charming, like Mary-Louise Parker's pot-dealing widow in Showtime's suburban dramedy Weeds. Or sympathetic but scary, like Courteney Cox's rapacious gossip-magazine editor...
...weak dollar also makes U.S. asset prices attractive to foreign investors. U.S. interest rates are higher than those in Continental Europe and are much higher than Japanese rates. Similarly, U.S. stocks look better by comparison. Measured in euros or pounds, the S&P 500 index is up less than 50% from its October 2002 lows, while European markets have more than doubled. Plus, Standard and Poor's recently reported that 44.2% of the revenues of companies in the S&P 500 index were generated abroad, up from 32% five years ago. With almost half of their revenues being earned...
Probably, but it may have happened anyway. Growing resentment against Musharraf's heavy-handed tactics has fueled defiance across the country. Rule of law in the tribal areas, already weak, has collapsed entirely. A 2006 peace accord with Islamic militants in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, forced the army back to the barracks, allowing al-Qaeda to flourish, according to the National Intelligence Estimate. Now the agreement has failed, and al-Qaeda is even stronger...