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...believe that I could do a better job, I could not have led a university on Sept. 11. I could hardly speak, the news was so debilitating: the colossal towers of the World Trade Center lay in a heap of rubble; the Pentagon stood, but with a gaping wound; thousands of innocent people were torn from their friends and family before their time...
Underlying all these laments is a deep resentment that the Arab world is not the geopolitical player it feels entitled to be. The wound is aggravated by a historical memory of grandeur, of Islam's expansion from Arabia in the 7th century to the conquest of the Levant, northern Africa and much of Europe, culminating in a final rebuff at the gates of Vienna 10 centuries later. The question many Arabs ask the U.S. and the West in general, says Professor Jean Leca of the Institute of Political Science in Paris, is, "Why are you leaning so heavily...
...bounce, in the 9500-10,500 range. Now it?s doing the same thing, in the 8000-9000 range. Can anyone honestly say that what happened that Tuesday wasn?t worth 1,500 points or so? Until Wall Street can grasp some evidence of a treatment equal to the wound - or a healing period equal to the pain - it?s hardly likely to want to rush back in, believing everything will be like it was, only better. At least not until they get a look at the Christmas consumer season...
These are simple points agreed to by a huge and diverse coalition of individuals and groups, and that is what gives them their power. Yesterday’s massive rally on the Widener steps, where professors, students, workers and others shared their visions for how to heal the gaping wound left by the attacks without causing more senseless death, was meant to demonstrate the strong support within this community for an opening of dialogue about what our options are. The debates taking place so far have lacked balance and have treated the use of drastic military measures as inevitable, while...
Björk and Tricky’s paths diverged dramatically after that—Tricky continued to remix Björk’s songs, but soon wound up in a fightfist with her fiancee Goldie, later to disappear into the obscurity of what has since been diagnosed as a rare hormone disease. He released albums that were proogressively more radio-unfriendly, while Björk released the acclaimed Homogenic, and became so famous that she was the victim of fan attacks and stalkers. Björk then starred in last year’s Dancer in the Dark...