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...should be proud, then, that while ground zero is still being rebuilt, pop culture emerged with barely a dent. In the fifth year after 9/11, it's revisiting the attacks head-on. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (see review, next page) digs into the rubble of the Twin Towers, telling the story of two police officers who were among the last survivors to be pulled out. United 93 grossed about $43 million worldwide, a respectable sum for a $15 million movie about the passengers who brought down a plane before hijackers could crash it. In January the cable movie...
...true to the commission's spirit.) Platt hired director David L. Cunningham, a documentary veteran, to give the movie a vérité look, without emotional tricks like zooming in on fraught moments. That's not to say all the actors are dispassionate. Lauria recalls his having volunteered at ground zero after 9/11: "You realize how good people are. A good leader would have mobilized that instead of 'Let's make sure my friends keep making money.'" But he adds that making the mini-series left him hawkish on giving government agents the tools to fight terrorism. "It's inevitable that...
...pointing out that "since joining multilateral talks over Iran and North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang." So far, it would seem, multilateral diplomacy is batting zero...
...region where those regimes and organizations represent a significant force. As Rami Khouri, editor at large of Beirut's Daily Star, so tartly put it: "Washington is engaged almost exclusively with Arab governments whose influence with Syria is virtually nonexistent, whose credibility with Arab public opinion is zero, whose own legitimacy at home is increasingly challenged, and whose pro-U.S. policies tend to promote the growth of those militant Islamist movements that now lead the battle against American and Israeli policies. Is Rice traveling to a new Middle East, or to a diplomatic Disneyland of her own imagination...
...result, interest rates are going up, setting the stage for slower expansion of the money supply. This is occurring for two reasons. First, central banks are now satisfied that deflation has been avoided - an especially big deal for the Bank of Japan, which just abandoned nearly six years of zero interest rates. Second, authorities are concerned about the risks of incipient inflation. So-called core inflation gauges have accelerated in a climate of sharply rising energy prices. Determined to avoid the mistakes of the 1970s, central banks have been quick to tighten in response. This changes the rules of engagement...