AFTER 9/11, foreign policy scholars quickly took to describing terrorism as the dark underside of globalization. Al Qaeda was like a multinational corporation, the thinking went, and the money and men that had been used to such murderous effect were simply part of a larger tide of goods and capital streaming across national borders and overwhelming the governments within them.
OKLAHOMA CITY - After the Washington Huskies lost to the Oklahoma Sooners on Sept. 9, a group of Seattle SuperSonics upper management and some corporate partners who had trekked here for the football game were treated to a dinner at a local steakhouse by new owner Clay Bennett.
Clay Bennett:down-home discomfort OKLAHOMA CITY - After the Washington Huskies lost to the Oklahoma Sooners on Sept. 9, a group of Seattle SuperSonics upper management and some corporate partners who had trekked here for the football game were treated to a dinner at a local steakhouse by new owner Clay Bennett.
As I'm writing, it's more than seven hours since BBC Television's Newsnight program broke the story of an academic research paper prepared for that country's Ministry of Defense. The paper echoes the judgements of the American NIE leaked over the weekend, that the Iraq war has acted as a "recruiting agent" for the jihad movement, but it also moves the story along. It blamed Pakistan's
, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2006 with 90 to follow. This is Yom Kippur. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.
In four years as Fort Worth's fire chief, Charles Gaines was all business. Chief Gaines, 49, was found dead at his home Saturday afternoon, apparently of natural causes.