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Tiruneh said she hopes that the series will encourage people to realize that Africa’s obstacles extend beyond the basic problems of poverty and AIDS...
...naming the American campaign against terrorists in Afghanistan “Operation ‘Enduring Freedom,’” the U.S. portrayed the current conflict in universal terms, terms that spoke of the basic values of free societies worldwide. But fighting against “terrorism of global reach,” not just here but also abroad, is a task of unprecedented difficulty and scope. In a world of failed states and separatist movements, it is not always clear who the terrorists are. Our efforts to maintain an international coalition and to eliminate the constituency...
...Sept. 11 changed the rules: from New York to the tiniest American towns, people began playing the everything-bad-can-happen-to-me game, the instigation of which is the basic objective of terrorism. But at the same time, some New Yorkers, desperate for some shred of comfort, started playing a new version of the old game - I don't work on Wall Street, we told ourselves, I'm not in a tall enough building, and so on. In the media, our inoculation of choice was an old truism: terrorists don't kill their publicists...
Unlike a traditional, narrowly defined set of health benefits, this plan lets employees spend a portion of their allotted health dollars--usually around $1,000 to $2,000 a year--as they see fit. They can spend it on the deductible of a basic indemnity policy or opt for alternative medicine; if they don't use up their allocation before the end of one year, they can roll it over to the next. At best, Stevens guessed, perhaps an adventurous 10% to 15% of workers would take the leap; in the end, though, more than three-quarters signed...
...most basic sense, the two groups have been displaced. Native Americans were repeatedly and forcibly removed from land they had occupied for centuries. In the Middle East, many Arabs feel that they were forced out to make room for Israel. Without displacing Native Americans, the United States would not be the most powerful country in the world (250 million people can’t survive by hunting buffalo). And though it seems reasonable that a Jewish state be created as a safe haven after the atrocities of World War II, from a Native American or Arab perspective the fairness...