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First, we must recognize that in spite of all the plaints of Western peace-mongers, the ideology of al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers is not the “inevitable outgrowth” of Third World poverty, globalization, U.S. neo-colonialism, and a host of other bogeymen beloved of the know-nothing Left. True, it finds footsoldiers among the poor and dispossessed of Pakistan and Palestine. But the angry young men who crowd the streets of Peshawar and line up to train as mujahadeen are pawns, not leaders, and their marching orders do not bubble up, unbidden, from...
...famous” by conventional mainstream standards at this point (at least not in America), the Strokes have managed to bypass fame, fortune and selling out without collecting their $200 and have instead skipped straight to the requisite hedonism that accompanies rock ’n roll superstardom. In spite of their new-money pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas’ father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi...
...spite of some trouble the boat had in a rough section of water, Radcliffe finished with a leading time of 17:39.25, with Syracuse coming...
That's a self-serving view, but it's one shared by independent analysts. The volume of digital information--transaction data, e-mail, video images--that companies collect and store continues to double every year in spite of the dotcom wipeouts. "It is the only recession-proof area from a capacity-demand perspective," says Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Storage Group, a research firm based in Milford, Mass. "Nobody ever needs less storage...
...Harvard men’s water polo team escaped New England weather this weekend by flying to California to play in the Claremont Invitational. In spite of playing five games under the stress of time change and a new location, results indicate that outdoor pools and California crowds suit this team quite nicely as the Crimson won all five of its games...