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...Bush supporters asserted that he had "proven himself under the white-hot spotlight of crisis," and weren't afraid to "thank God we have a Man of Faith in the White House" who "handpicked the very best people for his cabinet." Some liked "the way he has matured as a leader of our country," while others appraised his development more bluntly: "Prior to 9-11, he was perceived as a bumbling idiot, incapable of true leadership. His response to 9-11 has proven to the world that he is a man of compassion, patience, and action." ... "The dummy...
Animosity toward the U.S. in the Middle East can be plotted through concentric circles. In the white-hot core are violent ideologues like bin Laden and their acolytes. Then come Arab radicals, including both Islamic fundamentalists and secular nationalists, who are desperate and angry enough to have danced in the streets upon hearing the news of Sept. 11. But the distaste also extends to large numbers of temperate Arabs who were quietly pleased to see American arrogance taken down a notch--business people and family people who smiled and sent messages of congratulations to one another when the Twin Towers...
...white-hot job market that held sway last October, PricewaterhouseCoopers launched a spirited talent hunt. It extended lucrative offers to a score of business and economics majors at Rutgers University in New Jersey who were eager to embark this summer on careers with the big accounting and consulting firm. Some of them will be heading for the beach instead. The company has postponed their corporate debuts until next January. Says a senior: "We were gearing up to start our jobs, and then this letter came. But at least they're not laying...
...hype is only half right. Though we have no definite statistics yet, we know that growth has slowed from the white-hot rate of 5 percent to the more prosaic but healthy 1-3 percent. On that basis, the financial media--out of boredom more than anything else--has started wondering if the world is about to end, and whether it will be by fire or ice. The conclusion: either will suffice...
Castano's crusade against the rebels began as a white-hot act of revenge: in 1979 a FARC gang kidnapped his father, a dairy farmer in Cordoba province. The members demanded $50,000, and when the Castano family could raise only $20,000, they executed him. "We knew these guerrillas. We'd let them sleep in our house. We sympathized with their social ideals," Castano recalls. Later, his kid sister was killed in a botched kidnapping by the FARC. Eight more of his siblings were later killed, either by drug hit men or rebels, he says...