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DIED. MICHAEL HOUSER, 40, singer-guitarist for the rock group Widespread Panic, among the most popular of the jam bands influenced by the Grateful Dead; of pancreatic cancer; in Athens...
...Helms didn't panic. His students and their parents hail from as far away as Vietnam, Mexico, Germany, Portugal, Panama and, fortunately, China. By the end of Zhong's second week, Helms, with help from the Cantonese-speaking students in his class, had taught Zhong to count past 10 as well as to answer yes and no to questions translated...
...Republican wise men essentially urged President Bush to get a grip on his administration's public stance on Iraq. The reason: In the absence of clear signals from the White House, hawkish rhetoric and media leaks were provoking panic among U.S. allies. Although the statements by senior Republican skeptics vary, the common theme is that the administration has yet to make a strategic case for a military campaign to remove Saddam, and to assemble the appropriate coalition. President Bush's comments on Wednesday suggest he's heard their complaints...
With its fudging CEOs and murky auditors, corporate America has managed to do what al-Qaeda failed to do last fall. It has aroused fear, uncertainty and panic among Americans. Unsure when the next act of corporate terrorism will occur and helpless as markets and savings fall to lows not seen in years, most Americans no longer know whom to trust or how to invest. Forget Osama bin Laden. For now, the enemies are indeed within our borders. We need to root them out and prosecute them. BRUCE SHIVLEY Oxford...
...times a year, a passenger plane crashing somewhere in the European Union? On average, 110 people killed, 4,650 injured, every day? Impossible, of course. There would be panic, uproar, governments falling in the face of such unremitting carnage. But the only lie in this horrendous scenario is the word plane. Substitute car, and that is the annual swath in the E.U. - 40,000 people dead, another 1.7 million injured, with a little help from trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and errant pedestrians. Numbers to make a bin Laden blanch...