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Here is a tale of the academy that, if you follow its trails, will lead you to learned journals, dense footnotes and multivariate regression analysis. But stick with it. In 1996 Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard University published his enormously influential book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Buried deep in its pages was the claim that there is "some evidence" that "resistance to assimilation is stronger among Mexican migrants" than it was among other immigrants to the U.S. But Huntington offered no supporting data...
Whatever their failings may have been, Clinton's people knew one way in which the world had changed since the early 1990s. At the January 2001 conference at which Scowcroft spoke and which Rice attended, Samuel Berger, Clinton's National Security Adviser, said that "America is in a deadly struggle with a new breed of anti-Western jihadists--nothing less than a war." In answer to a question, Berger was blunt: "We must understand as a nation that we are engaged in a wholly new battle against an international terrorist network in dozens of countries, which is deeply committed...
...Reported by Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Stephan Faris and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad, James Graff and Samuel Loewenberg/Madrid, Syed Talat Hussain/Islamabad, Scott MacLeod/Rabat and Tim McGirk/Wana
...pieces for TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because...
...last month as a top international counterterrorism agent at the FBI. "They've introduced a technique that we knew about and were concerned about," he warns, "but are not prepared to deal with." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Walter Gibbs/Oslo; Helen Gibson/London; Samuel Loewenberg and Jane Walker/Madrid; Scott Macleod/Cairo; Pelin Turgut/Istanbul; and Enrique Zaldua/San Sebastian