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...Snobbery (Houghton Mifflin; 274 pages), Epstein's subject is the modern American version of this age-old vice. It's counterintuitive, but snobbery is a weed that flourishes in the soil of democracy. In the Old World, where hierarchies were strict, there wasn't much point in looking down on people who accepted that they were below you. Democracy, H.L. Mencken wrote, "is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them...
...Sept. 11! Does anybody really believe it was the fault of the bureau, or is it just the scapegoat? To say the agents were caught with their pants down makes a great story, but can we expect the FBI to be absolutely flawless? Can we expect agents to weed through the thousands of terrorist threats made against the U.S., omnipotently knowing which ones to take seriously? I think the FBI does an exceptional job, considering the hand it is dealt every day. Who knows how many times its agents have saved lives? We owe them thanks, not blame. ENOCH BASNETT...
...outsiders can't win because the game of commerce is rigged by the government to favor a few powerful men. But in the past 18 months or so, Malaysia's image has been rejuvenated by its efforts to restructure the corporate sector, impose discipline on the stock market and weed out questionable characters. Malaysia has suddenly become the darling of financial analysts. "Laws and regulations are being applied impartially," enthuses P.K. Basu, who is chief Southeast Asian economist for the merchant bank Credit Suisse First Boston in Singapore. "Some previous transgressions are even being punished...
...want to glean from these mounds of papers? First, of course, we want to determine whether the CIA and FBI are capable of working together - and why they haven't been doing that for years. Second, we want to figure out the best way for the intelligence community to weed out real threats from hundreds of false alarms. And third, we want to know who, finally, will be responsible for the U.S. intelligence community - its successes and failures...
...have alleged that the company knew of the problem as early as March 19 and continued to deliver contaminated products until May 10. Agriculture officials speculated that the wheat used in the animal feed may have come from Eastern Europe, where use of Nitrofen is still permitted as a weed killer. But officials said the concentration of Nitrofen in the feed was too high to have been used as a weed treatment while the wheat was growing. It may have been added during storage, possibly by an outsider. "Sabotage cannot be ruled out," said Gerald A. Herrmann, head of Naturland...