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...Bush's speech will praise his corporate audience but also "call business leaders to a higher ethical standard," says one who has worked on it. Speaking in Manhattan, the president will refer to the "character of New York," after the attacks of 9/11, a suggestion that Wall Street should aim for the same standard. Throughout the week, cabinet secretaries will help make the big sell. Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, both ex-CEOs will speak to a town hall meeting of investor groups, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will assure people their pensions are safe...
Bringing bin Laden to justice has been a nonnegotiable U.S. war aim since Sept. 17, when President Bush declared that he wanted the al-Qaeda leader dead or alive. But with the trail growing cold, White House aides have lately offered a new definition of victory. "If he's unable to perpetrate terrorist attacks, we win," says one. That's not enough to quiet the private grumbles of dissent in both parties about the failure of the Pentagon and CIA to plink their top target. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a Vietnam war hero and Democratic presidential aspirant, is among those...
...Saharan Africa 40% of people exist on less than $1 a day, and average per capita income is lower now than in the 1960s. One African in five lives in a country severely disputed by war. This decline reflects both political and institutional failure. Reform, Museveni argues, "must clearly aim at repositioning Africa from backward, agriculturally focused to industrial societies...
Perhaps what American lay Catholics need to say more clearly is that the aim of our desire to change the church is not to undermine but to save it. We love our faith--just look at how few Catholics have abandoned the church in this current crisis. We love our priests--just see how many parishioners have rallied round their own pastors in this time of trial. But what we have witnessed means we would be delinquent if we didn't fight for real change. We are actually being more faithful than those who want to perpetuate the conditions...
When The Hives are onstage, they aim to look like a gang of Swedish pimps working the world's most elegant street corner. All five band members wear identical black dress shirts and trousers, set off by white shoes and fluorescent white ties folded to look like ascots. Offstage, the Hives prefer black T shirts that blare their individual rock-'n'-roll pseudonyms--Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem--in big block letters. They are not courting anonymity. Nevertheless, shortly before their concert last week at Chicago's old Metro theater, the Hives...