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...February, Riverhead will publish "Miracle at Saint Ana," the hotly anticipated fiction debut of James McBride, author of the best-selling "The Color of Water." According to PW, "Set in Italy in WWII and based on the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry, ?Miracle at Saint Ana? focuses on four American Negro men, a band of partisans and an Italian boy who find redemption in the aftermath of a massacre...
...full-scale invasion and occupation of a country such as Afghanistan would likely result in the activation or reserves, certainly. But remember -drafted soldiers take 6 months to train properly, and at this point no one is imagining a protracted large-scale conflict on the order of WWII or even Vietnam. It?s just not that kind of enemy. But as we?ve learned this week, the unimaginable is always possible...
...With George W. Bush making it all but official - "we?re at war" - Republican senators Mitch McConnell and Conrad Burns introduced legislation Friday to direct the Department of the Treasury to issue War Bonds for the first time since WWII. Paul O?Neill would set the terms - U.S. citizens would make the loan...
...future, fiscal discipline is the last thing on anybody?s mind, and now that "we?re at war," war bonds are as good a way as any to pay for that $40 billion in relief funds and any other new defense expenditures that come along. Good for patriotism - maybe WWII wasn?t the "last good war" after all - and good for making the eventual bill go down easy with the voters...
...alarmists here in the States - who's got the time, with prices so low? - but we do tend to rally around a good crisis. The Greatest Generation had WWII, the boomers got to hem and haw on Vietnam/Watergate and permanently cripple our national self-esteem. We get the business cycle, the global economy, and a chance to answer the question of the century: whether capitalism can indeed save the world, or just fill it with smog and fast-food restaurants...