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...improved degree of resiliency, flexibility and adaptability" driven by information technology and unbound by globalization and deregulation. "To be sure, a great deal of real economic pain has been felt over the past year and a half," he said. But for the economy to have weathered the NASDAQ crash of 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 "as well as it has is truly impressive...
During the Crown Heights riot of 1991, Sharpton went to Israel to track down the Hasidic Jewish man responsible for killing a black child in an accidental car crash. The Israel trip and several alleged anti-Semitic comments strained his relationship with the Jewish community...
...American wavelength. A Capra resonance, an atmosphere, seemed to have returned off and on during the fall. It suggested some earlier American self-image, a kind of innocence arising from vulnerability and loss: post-traumatic sweetness. (The trauma in Capra's case, of course, was the stock-market crash and the Great Depression.) Had we renewed our citizenship, for a little while, in Frank Capra's America...
...Meanwhile, in Florida, Bishop's crash left local authorities haunted by what-ifs: What if Bishop had taken his plane down in a crowded area? What if he had wanted to kill scores of people? The grim fact is that he probably could have done both. Although a Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched and its pilots told Bishop to land, the teenager ignored the commands and crashed the plane. Scrambled F-15 fighter jets reached the scene only after the plane hit the building...
...with "coordinating with local tribal elements" is the only death due to enemy fire, there have been other U.S. military deaths related to the war in Afghanistan. In early December, three special operations troops were accidentally killed during a U.S. airstrike over Kandahar. Two soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Pakistan, one perished in another accident, another was swept overboard en route to the region and a CIA operative died in the Mazar-e-sharif prison uprising...