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The Mohandessin section of Cairo is a fashionable district on the west bank of the Nile that contains a number of embassies, boutiques, and American fast-food restaurants. It also houses the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque, which is named after a physician and Islamic television personality who founded it, twenty years ago. On Friday, September 21st, I arrived at the mosque just as the first worshippers were making their way there, and the egalitarianism that is one of the great virtues of the Muslim prayer service was evident: they were dark-skinned and light, rich and poor; one man drove up in a blue Jaguar; others, wearing grease-stained galabiyas and crude sandals, came on foot, or by donkey cart. (Women, as is customary, prayed apart, in another, smaller hall.) I had arranged to meet the mosque's imam, Sheikh Nasser Abdelrazi. A slight, anxious man, he preëmptively offered up the observation that "Muslims are gentle and Islam is peace."
Many in Cairo are on the defensive in the wake of the terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon. Greater Cairo, a city of sixteen million people, is the intellectual capital of the Arab world—home to its moviemakers, many of its great writers, and some of its most respected interpreters of Islam. Muslim leaders here are sensitive to the image of their faith—especially now, because Egyptians are among those allegedly involved in the attacks. Muhammad Atta, who is believed to have flown one of the hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, is the son of a middle-class Cairo lawyer. Ayman al-Zawahiri, a former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a fundamentalist group that sought to turn Egypt into an Islamic state, is said to be second-in-command to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile who is suspected of directing the attacks.
I did not dispute the Imam's assertion, but the speaker at the service that Friday, Ahmed Youssef—an elderly, bespectacled professor at Cairo University, who joined us before the service got under way—did. "Look, what happened in New York is the work of a gangster mentality, but America must learn not to take the side of the aggressor," he said. "I hope America learns from this mistake before it makes another mistake."
In his view, the aggressor is Israel, which signed a peace agreement with Egypt almost twenty-three years ago. This historical fact is not immediately noticeable in Cairo, where the public obsession with Israel is overwhelming. Youssef said that the nineteen terrorists who on September 11th committed mass suicide in the course of committing mass murder engaged in an un-Islamic act. They killed civilians, which is haram, or forbidden, and they killed themselves, which is also haram. Only against Israel is it permissible to engage in a "martyrdom attack," he said, and this is because it is "only the Jews who kill innocent people." He added, "There are no Israeli civilians, only soldiers, so this is a legitimate tactic."
At this, Sheikh Abdelrazi blanched. "He is not speaking for the mosque," he whispered. The mosque, like all mosques in Egypt, ostensibly comes under the supervision of the government, whose position on suicide attacks against Israeli civilians is ambiguous. When I asked President Hosni Mubarak's chief spokesman, Nabil Osman, if his government condemns such attacks, he would say only, "One cannot condemn these acts without condemning the acts of the occupier."
I asked Sheikh Abdelrazi and Youssef if they believed that the Palestinian cause was the motivating factor in Muhammad Atta's alleged act.
"I don't know what happened in New York," Youssef said. "I don't have the answer."
The mosque's muezzin began calling the faithful to prayer. "God is Greater," he chanted, his voice carried by speakers across Arab League Street, beside the mosque. "I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God."
Some of the men who went to pray asked if I was a man of the Book; Christians and Jews, as monotheists, however flawed, still hold a certain status in Islam, and I was invited to perform the ablutions that would purify me for the prayer service. As we stepped outside to the fountain, where a great number of Muslims were already washing, an old man, sallow-skinned and stooped, moved our way, surrounded by courtiers.
"He has the answer," Sheikh Abdelrazi said, pointing to the mosque's founder, Mustafa Mahmoud himself. But Mahmoud hobbled into the mosque; the answer would wait until after prayers.
By now, two thousand or so worshippers had assembled. The Friday service was short, and the sermon lasted only a few minutes. In it, Youssef acknowledged that an injustice had been done in the United States but cautioned America to stay its hand. "Don't say that one should not kill civilians and then kill civilians yourself."
After prayer, Youssef found me and gave his interpretation of the differing outlooks of Christianity and Islam.
"In Islam, if I slap your cheek"—he slapped my cheek—"you should slap my other cheek. But in Christianity, Jesus says turn the other cheek. The U.S. is Christian, so why doesn't it turn the other cheek?"
The discussion was curtailed by the announcement that Mustafa Mahmoud was ready to meet with me. I made my way to an austere office where Mahmoud, who is eighty, was already sitting. "I understand you want the answer," Mahmoud said.
I said yes.
"Waco," he said. At my silent surprise, he went on, "The Branch Davidians attacked the World Trade Center, the McVeigh people. The Mossad gave them help. Did you know that the Israelis who work at the World Trade Center were told to stay home that day?"
He had learned this, he said, from research on the Internet.
"It is impossible for Osama bin Laden to do this," Mahmoud continued. "No Arab could have done this."
For moral reasons? I asked.
"No!" he said. "For technical reasons. Arabs are always late! They aren't coördinated enough to do this, all at once on four airplanes. What does Osama bin Laden know about American air travel, anyway? He lives in Afghanistan."
Mustafa Mahmoud is not a marginal figure in Egyptian society. He is an eminent surgeon and onetime Marxist who found religion; his popular television show, "Science and Faith," explores the connections between religion and reason; a charitable organization that bears his name runs several clinics and hospitals in Cairo, including an eye institute that is reputed to be one of the most advanced in the Middle East.
Mahmoud told me that he is not sorry about the destruction of the World Trade Center. "Even Rome was a great empire once," he said. "This was an attack on American arrogance."
He said I could read more about his beliefs in a newspaper column that would appear the next day. In addition to his other achievements, Mahmoud regularly contributes articles to Al-Ahram, which is the largest and most respected daily newspaper in Egypt.
I later found, on the Internet, a translation of one of Mahmoud's columns, from late June. Its headline was "ISRAEL—THE PLAGUE OF OUR TIME AND A TERRORIST STATE." Much of the column is taken up with a recounting of the main points of the notorious turn-of-the-century tsarist forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." "What exactly do the Jews want?" he wrote on June 23rd. "Read what the Ninth Protocol of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' says: 'We have limitless ambitions, inexhaustible greed, merciless vengeance and hatred beyond imagination. We are a secret army whose plans are impossible to understand by using honest methods.' "
The image of Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin joyously clasping hands with Jimmy Carter at the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord is indelible but misleading, because it did not herald a true peace between two peoples. It has been a cold peace, particularly on the Egyptian side. Israelis have visited Egypt by the thousands, but the Egyptian government has long discouraged its citizens from visiting Israel or doing business with Israelis. And since the latest outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, a year ago, and the attendant photographs of Israeli soldiers firing on Palestinian rock throwers, the relationship has turned frigid. Mubarak supports the peace treaty signed by his predecessor, Sadat—an American-aid package of two billion dollars a year fairly demands this of him—but he has discouraged the normalization of relations between the two states.
It is in the domain of the press that Mubarak's position is most evident. Al-Ahram is often described in the American press as a "semi-official" daily newspaper, but this may be an understatement. Its editor, two government officials told me, is chosen by President Mubarak, who also chooses the editors of other government newspapers and magazines. Even supposedly independent or opposition newspapers are said never to criticize the President. The one area in which they are given especially wide latitude is in criticizing Israel and, to a lesser extent, America.
One day last week, I visited the offices of the newspaper Al-Usbu, an independent weekly that is distinctly anti-Israel and critical of ministers in the Mubarak government—though not, of course, of Mubarak himself. Its editor, Mustafa Bakri, who is in his forties, was in his office, watching Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arabic cable channel. He was impeccably dressed, polite and deferential. I had wanted to meet him for some time, ever since I read a translation of a column in which he described a dream. The dream began with his appointment as one of Ariel Sharon's bodyguards, assigned to protect the Israeli Prime Minister at Cairo's airport, and in the column, which appeared in February, he wrote:
The pig landed; his face was diabolical, a murderer; his hands soiled with the blood of women and children. A criminal who should be executed in the town square. Should I remain silent as many others did? Should I guard this butcher on my homeland's soil? All of a sudden, I forgot everything: the past and the future, my wife and my children and I decided to do it. I pulled my gun and aimed it at the cowardly pig's head. I emptied all the bullets and screamed. . . . The murderer collapsed under my feet. I breathed a sigh of relief. I realized the meaning of virility, and of self-sacrifice. The criminal died. I stepped on the pig's head with my shoes and screamed from the bottom of my heart: Long live Egypt, long live Palestine, Jerusalem will never die and never will the honor of the nation be lost.
Bakri offered me an orange soda, and talked of the attack on the World Trade Center. He spoke in terms that, in the current shorthand, are considered Nasserist, after Gamal Abdel Nasser, the revolutionary leader and Egypt's first President. Nasserism today combines populism, Pan-Arab socialism, and opposition to all relations with Israel. Nasserists also resent American economic influence.
"The new globalists want to impose American thinking on the Arabs," Bakri said. "This is a reaction to their thinking." Bakri blamed the September 11th attacks on the American right wing, with help from the Mossad. "Five Israelis were arrested the day before the attack outside the World Trade Center for taking pictures," he said, and added that he knew this from reading American newspapers. If America responds militarily to the attacks, he continued, "American targets will be legitimate targets of Arab anger."
I also went to the offices of Al-Ahram to talk about this phenomenon_._ I met with Abdel Monem Said Aly, the director of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a respected moderate think tank attached to the newspaper. I asked him about the many anti-Israel and anti-American articles published in the official Egyptian press in the year leading up to the terror attacks. He himself has not disseminated anti-American ideas, and has fought the spread of conspiracy theories in Egyptian life.
"We have anti-Semitic papers and fanatics, yes, but these are garbage magazines," he said. "Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar, these are very moderate newspapers. Sometimes they are highly critical of the U.S., but that does not mean that they're anti-American."
Nevertheless, Al-Akhbar this year has run opinion pieces defending Hitler. I found one of them translated on the Web site of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a watchdog organization based in Washington. "Thanks to Hitler, of blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians took revenge in advance, against the most vile criminals on the face of the Earth," the Al-Akhbar columnist Ahmad Ragab wrote in April. "Although we do have a complaint against him, for his revenge was not enough."
Holocaust denial is a regular feature of Al-Gomhuriya, another government daily. Its deputy chief editor, Lotfi Nasif, sat with me in his windowless office in downtown Cairo last week and explained that the Holocaust is "an exaggeration" and that gas chambers are a product of the "Jewish imagination." He told me, "The crimes of the Zionists against the Palestinians far outweigh any of the crimes committed by the Nazis."
Colin Powell has frequently been denounced in the government press, sometimes in racial terms, and, shortly before the attacks in New York and in Washington, the Al-Akhbar columnist Mahmoud Abd Al-Munim Murad wrote, "The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor must be destroyed because of . . . the idiotic American policy that goes from disgrace to disgrace in the swamp of bias and blind fanaticism." He also declared that "the age of the American collapse has begun." This is a not uncommon theme among members of the Egyptian intellectual class.
On one subject of international controversy—the use of suicide bombers against Israel—there is near unanimity: despite slight shades of difference, as seen at the Mustafa Mahmoud Mosque, most people agree that it is sometimes allowable. Some Islamic moderates believe that suicide attacks are doctrinally permissible only against Israeli soldiers; a more extremist position holds that all Israelis are legitimate targets.
Before September 11th, American officials who worked closely with Egypt tried to downplay the role of anti-Israel and anti-American incitement in the local press. One of the few incidents that provoked a public American response came in 1998, when the newly appointed American Ambassador in Cairo, an Orthodox Jew named Daniel Kurtzer (who is now the Ambassador to Israel), was attacked in anti-Semitic terms in the Egyptian press.
Dennis Ross, who guided Middle East policy under the first Bush Administration and was the chief Middle East negotiator for Bill Clinton, told me last week that he and others had underestimated the influence that the press and the imams had in creating a climate hostile to Israel and America.
"The media have been a kind of safety valve to release tensions, and you could even say that a safety valve is a legitimate way to approach such problems," Ross, who is now a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said. "But in doing so they appeased extremist sentiments rather than countering them. A climate has been created in which the practice of suicide attacks has come to be seen as legitimate. I'm concerned that there are those who say that if it's O.K. against Israelis, then it's O.K. against Americans."
When I summarized Ross's view to Muhammad El-Sayed Said, the deputy director of the Al-Ahram Center, he blamed Ross for the failure of the peace process. "Dennis Ross is behind it all," Said said. "The Americans should be blamed for the disaster we are in," he continued, referring to the collapsed peace process, and, indirectly, to the terror attacks on the United States. "There's an ambivalence about the World Trade Center. I saw so many people crying when they heard the news, but the other side of it is that many Egyptians saw this as a useful blow against American arrogance. The sense is that it will help the Americans learn that they, too, are vulnerable. That they are paying a price for their total support for Israel."
Egyptian political élites, unlike the makers of street opinion, do not suggest that Israel, either alone or in concert with American extremists, carried out the attacks, but they blame Israel for creating an atmosphere of despair which leads to terrorism.
Last Tuesday, I met with Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League, which is housed in a palatial building on Tahrir Square, in the center of Cairo. Before being appointed secretary-general, Moussa served as President Mubarak's Foreign Minister. He is known as an outspoken critic of Israel. Moussa is a dapper man who, like many veteran diplomats, can speak at great length without giving much away. He said first that he hoped the World Trade Center would be rebuilt; then he outlined the current thinking of the Mubarak regime.
"There is a wide menu of coöperation," he said. "Countries will choose the areas where they can do best. All of us will fight terrorism, confront terrorism, but not necessarily by conducting a military campaign."
Moussa said that the World Trade Center attack should provide the impetus for America to "reassess" its Middle East alliances. "When it comes to the crunch, such as the Persian Gulf War, ten years ago, or the situation today, America has to sideline Israel," he said. "If Israel intervened on the side of America, it would be destructive to any coalition against terrorism." Many Arab governments have stated that they will not participate in a coalition in which Israel plays a part, and the Bush Administration has agreed. Moussa said that Israeli behavior in the occupied territories is contributing to instability and unease throughout the Muslim world.
Last October, during a visit here to attend an Arab summit on the Palestinian uprising, I spent a morning with a Muslim cleric named Muhammad Sayed Tantawi. Tantawi is the highest-ranking cleric in Egypt, and an influential figure across the Sunni Islamic world. I met him in his office near Al-Azhar University, the venerable Muslim theological center, which he oversees. Tantawi is known as the Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
Tantawi was appointed by Mubarak, whose official photograph hangs in Tantawi's office. Sheikh Tantawi usually has taken the side of Islamic moderation and believes in interfaith dialogue, but he also supports the development of an Arab nuclear weapon. Last October, the Palestinian uprising was in its infancy; there had not been a wave of suicide bombings since 1997. But in the interview Tantawi forcefully addressed the issue of jihad. "If someone takes something from you by force, it is your right to take it back by force," he said. "This is a requirement of Islam. If the Israelis would stop transgressing Muslim land, then there no longer would be a requirement to rise up and fight them."
I asked if Muslims were forbidden by Islamic law to engage in specific acts of retribution. "The killing of civilians is always wrong," he said. "Women, children. This is abhorrent to Islam."
Tantawi has since endorsed some suicide attacks against soldiers. In an interview earlier this year, he said, "The Palestinian youth who bomb themselves among people who fight against them are considered martyrs." Last week, though, he would not talk about suicide attacks. When I spoke to him briefly outside his office, he said only that he was sorry for the attacks on America, and he approved the notion of an international conference on terrorism. I noticed that he moved with a serious-looking security detail; men with submachine guns hanging under their jackets shadowed him through the building.
I asked one of Sheikh Tantawi's aides if there had been a specific threat against the Sheikh's life. No, he said, but added, "Egyptians are the victims of terrorism as well." He was referring to the anti-government campaigns of the nineteen-nineties, in which terrorists operated on behalf of two fundamentalist Muslim groups: the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Gama'a al-Islamiya. In this wave of terror, Egyptians and foreign tourists alike were murdered in a brutal campaign to convert Egypt into an Islamic state. Fundamentalists killed President Sadat in October of 1981, and they have tried to kill Mubarak as well. But the security around Tantawi suggests that they might want to kill him, too—and they could find, in a liberal interpretation of Tantawi's ruling favoring suicide attacks against "oppressors," a new and devastatating way to carry out their vision.
From an Islamic theological perspective, perhaps the most significant suicide attack to have taken place in the last two weeks occurred on September 9th, in northern Afghanistan. Two men suspected to be operating under the command of Osama bin Laden blew themselves up along with the leader of the Afghan opposition, Ahmed Shah Massoud. It is one thing for Muslim extremists to martyr themselves while attacking infidels; it is quite another for them to begin defining religious Muslims such as Massoud as infidels. Even among the Islamic Jihad and Hamas clerics of the Gaza Strip, I never heard anyone justify the use of suicide bombers against Muslim targets.
For some fundamentalists, the Massoud murder seemed to have significantly shifted the boundaries of what is considered permissible. Some Islamic scholars, including those under Sheikh Tantawi's supervision at Al-Azhar, have argued that, if one could attack Israelis, one could also attack anyone who stands in the way of their vision of what the world should look like.
To better understand the thinking of Muslims who have killed fellow-Muslims in holy war, I went to see Montasser al-Zayyat, the spokesman of the Gama'a al-Islamiya, which is the larger of Egypt's two fundamentalist terrorist groups. He is a lawyer and has represented, among others, his organization's spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who is in prison in America for plotting to blow up a number of New York landmarks, including the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the Empire State Building, and the United Nations.
When I arrived at a decrepit building in downtown Cairo, where al-Zayyat has his office, it was 9 P.M., and in his waiting room were several bearded men who were seeking an audience with him. They were noticeably hostile toward me, but I could not tell if they were upset by the presence of an American or by the fact that the American was jumping the line.
Al-Zayyat himself, a heavy featured, bearded man, was friendly, but, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, he was evasive. At a press conference in Cairo earlier this year, he had warned, "The U.S. will reap a bitter harvest if it continues humiliating Dr. Omar"—Sheikh Rahman. "The continuation of the Sheikh's abuse may result in an explosion of events targeted against U.S. interests. Sheikh Omar has many followers." That night, he said that his threats were not to be taken literally. "I'm very sorry for what happened in New York," he said.
Although Muslim fundamentalists in Egypt have been less visible since President Mubarak ordered a crackdown in the mid-nineties, they have been especially discreet over the last two weeks. The Gama'a al-Islamiya declared a ceasefire in 1999, but thousands of its members remain in jail. Like its rival, the ideologically similar Islamic Jihad, the Gama'a grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which for decades has been advocating the Islamization of Egyptian society. Unlike the Gama'a, which is illegal, the Muslim brothers exist in an ambiguous political state described to me by one government official as "illegal but tolerated."
The Egyptian Islamic Jihad is also illegal, and in any case seems to have transferred its operations to Afghanistan and merged with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, with the help of Jihad's Ayman al-Zawahiri. Though they represent rival organizations, al-Zayyat considers al-Zawahiri a friend.
"He's a very sensible man, a very quiet man," al-Zayyat said, when I asked him to describe al-Zawahiri. "When he speaks, you listen to him carefully."
I asked al-Zayyat what might have driven al-Zawahiri to help organize the American attacks. He replied that he had no knowledge of the attacks, and also said, "I'm not going to be a witness against my friend."
I had a final question: What is it about America that incites the fury of so many Islamists? I suggested that it is American values, especially as they relate to sex and the role of women in society, which Islamic conservatives abhor. "We have sex in Egypt," al-Zayyat said, laughing. Then he went on, "We don't have feelings of hatred toward the people of the U.S., but feelings of hatred toward the government of the U.S. have developed because you support Israel so blindly." At that moment, Montasser al-Zayyat's views seemed inseparable from those of Mubarak's spokesmen.
One evening, I met a friend, a member of the small Egyptian upper class, for drinks in a hotel by the Nile. Cairo isn't Islamabad: Muslims are free to drink alcohol, and there are movie theatres and belly dancing, although the percentage of women wearing traditional headscarves seems to have increased dramatically since I first visited, ten years ago. What people aren't encouraged to do is express interest in democratic reform. My friend asked that I not name him in anything I might write; he believes that the soft despotism of the Mubarak government is hardening, and he wants to stay out of jail. Earlier this year, a prominent sociologist and democracy advocate, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, was sentenced to seven years' hard labor on trumped-up charges, and, like the Egyptian peace camp, the number of those who support true democracy is purposefully shrinking from view.
We spoke about the Egyptian preoccupation with Israel. He is no friend of Israel—"I'm an Arab, how can I have warm feelings for such a place?" he said—but he believes that hatred of Israel, and, to a lesser extent, hatred of America, is fomented by the Mubarak regime as a diversion; as long as Egyptians think about Palestinians, they aren't thinking about themselves. "Egyptians live in just appalling conditions today," he said.
Per-capita income in Egypt is less than the per-capita income on the West Bank. Cairo is a tumultuous, decaying city with a wealthy élite and great masses of the destitute and the near-destitute. The universities are turning out thousands of graduates each year for whom there are no jobs. "The gap between rich and poor is widening, and what does the government give us? Hatred of the peace process." He ascribes to Mubarak's circle the ability to turn on and off anti-Western rhetoric.
All of this, he went on, is indirectly the fault of America, which gives Egypt two billion dollars a year in aid but demands little in return. "You allow them to manipulate you. Every time anti-American feelings appear here, Mubarak says, 'Support me or else you see what you'll get.' But the suppression and the corruption and the anti-democratic behavior will create much worse fundamentalism over time. Washington never stands up to them." He cited the imprisonment of the democracy advocate Saad Ibrahim, and said, "Look what they just did on the Queen Boat."
The boat in question, a well-known disco that allegedly attracted a gay clientele, was anchored a short distance from where we sat. ("Queen" is thought to refer to the wife of the deposed King Farouk.) Following a police raid of the vessel in May, fifty-three men were arrested for presumed homosexuality; these men are now on trial in Cairo. Two weeks ago, the first sentence was handed down: a seventeen-year-old received three years' hard labor.
"What does the U.S. do about this? Nothing," my friend said. The only prescription is the robust export of democratic values. "There's no Cold War anymore. You can't drive him into an alliance with the Soviets."
There are few Egyptian intellectuals who still argue publicly in favor of normalization with Jerusalem. They are despised, and for the most part quiet. One of them is Ali Salem, a playwright recently expelled from the Egyptian Writers' Union for making frequent visits to Israel and for assuming a pro-normalization stance.
I wanted to ask Salem, who is sixty-five years old and looks like the literary critic Harold Bloom, what had happened, but he said that he was interested in talking about "something deeper than that." We sat in a cafeteria not far from the Mahmoud mosque. Salem drank coffee and chain-smoked Marlboros. "History is cruel," he said. "It is trying to drag America backward. But I think in this case history is right."
He explained, "We here need to be more progressive, but you need to take a step back. If the bureaucrats in your airports were just a little more paranoid, like us, it would be a different world. Really, America is a beautiful place: no one even asked why all these guys wanted flying lessons. You should learn to be suspicious. A little backwardness would be healthy."
I asked him to identify the cause of the attacks on America.
"People say that Americans are arrogant, but it's not true," he said. "Americans enjoy life and they are proud of their lives, and they are boastful of their wonderful inventions that have made life so much easier and more convenient. It's very difficult to understand the machinery of hatred, because you wind up resorting to logic, but trying to understand this with logic is like measuring distance in kilograms. These are people who are afraid of America, afraid of life itself. . . . These are people who are envious. To them, life is an unbearable burden. Modernism is the only way out. But modernism is frightening. It means we have to compete. It means we can't explain everything away with conspiracy theories."
Ali Salem paused to order another cup of coffee.
"Bernard Shaw said it best, you know. In the preface to 'St. Joan,' he said Joan of Arc was burned not for any reason except that she was talented. Talent gives rise to jealousy in the hearts of the untalented."
Soon after seeing Ali Salem, I ran into Muhammad Atta's father, Muhammad al-Amir Atta, outside a downtown Cairo hotel. He was agitated, alternately aggressive and disconsolate. He had spent much of the week defending himself to reporters and defending his son. I asked him the same question: What, in his mind, lay behind the attack on the World Trade Center?
"The Mossad kidnapped my son and stole his papers," he told me. "Then they spread those papers out at the World Trade Center in order to make it seem like he did it." ♦


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Therapeutic Class: Immune Serum
Uses for Gamimune N
Immune globulin injection is used to prevent infections or make the infection less severe (eg, hepatitis A with not more than 2 weeks of exposure, chickenpox, measles with not more than 6 days of exposure, has not been vaccinated, and has not had measles previously, or rubella) when your body has a weak immune system. Immune globulin contains antibodies that make your immune system stronger. It is used for patients who have primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI), idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura, or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). It is also used to improve muscle strength and disability in patients with multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). Immune globulin injection belongs to a group of medicines known as immunizing agents.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the supervision of your doctor.
Before using Gamimune N
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of immune globulin injection in children. Some of the products are only used in children who are 2, 3, or 15 years of age and older, and other products are not approved for use in children. Immune globulin injection is used to treat primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI), idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura in children. Safety and efficacy have not been established for use in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) or multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN).
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of Gamastan® in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of immune globulin injection in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related blood clotting problems, kidney disease, or heart disease, which may require caution for patients receiving immune globulin injection.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of Gamastan® in the elderly. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Interactions with medicines
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Interactions with food/tobacco/alcohol
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other medical problems
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Allergy to corn—Use with caution. May cause an allergic reaction to occur again.
- Anemia, history of or
- Bleeding problems, history of or
- Hyponatremia (low sodium in the blood) or
- Kidney problems—Use with caution. May make these conditions worse.
- Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), history of or
- Blood clotting problems, history of or
- Diabetes or
- Heart attack or stroke, recent or
- Heart or blood vessel disease or
- Hyperproteinemia (high protein in the blood) or
- Hyperviscosity (thick blood), known or suspected or
- Hypovolemia (low blood volume or major loss of body fluids) or
- IgA (immunoglobulin A) deficiency with antibodies against IgA or
- Paraproteinemia (paraproteins in the blood) or
- Sepsis (serious infection in the body)—Use with caution. May cause side effects to become worse.
- Hereditary intolerance to fructose or sucrose or
- IgA (immunoglobulin A) deficiency with antibodies against IgA—Gammaplex® should not be used in patients with these conditions.
- Hyperprolinemia (too much proline in the blood) or
- IgA (immunoglobulin A) deficiency with antibodies against IgA—Hizentra® and Privigen® should not be used in patients with these conditions.
- IgA (immunoglobulin A) deficiency with antibodies against IgA—Gamastan® and Octagam® should not be used in patients with this condition.
Proper use of immune globulin
This section provides information on the proper use of a number of products that contain immune globulin. It may not be specific to Gamimune N. Please read with care.
A doctor or other trained health professional will give you this medicine in a medical facility. It is given through a needle placed into one of your veins, as a shot into one of your muscles, or as a shot under your skin.
This medicine comes with a patient information insert. Read and follow the instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
While you are being treated with immune globulin injection, do not have any immunizations (vaccines) without your doctor's approval. Live virus vaccines should not be given for 3 to 6 months after receiving immune globulin.
The Gammagard Liquid, Gammaked™, Gamunex®-C, and Hizentra® products may be given at home to patients who do not need to be in the hospital or clinic. They are given as an infusion under your skin once every week. The Hizentra® product may also be given once every 2 weeks. If you are using this medicine at home, your doctor will teach you how to prepare and infuse the medicine. You will be shown the body areas where the medicine can be given. Use a different body area for each infusion. Keep track of where you give an infusion to make sure you rotate sites. This will help prevent skin problems.
Do not change the brand or type of your immune globulin unless your doctor tells you to. If you must change the brand of medicine, talk to your doctor before giving yourself an infusion. Make sure you understand the instructions on how to use the new brand.
Allow the Gammagard Liquid, Gammaked™, or Gamunex®-C brand to reach room temperature before using it.
To use Gammagard Liquid, Gammaked™, Gamunex®-C, or Hizentra®:
- First, gather the items you will need on a clean, flat surface using a cloth or towel in a well-lighted area.
- Wash your hands with soap and water before and after using this medicine.
- If you have been told to wear gloves when preparing your infusion, put the gloves on.
- Check the liquid in the vial (glass container). It should be clear and slightly yellow to light brown in color. If it is cloudy, discolored, or contains large flecks (particles), do not use the vial. Select another vial.
- If the liquid is clear, place it on the clean, flat surface. Do not heat up or shake the medicine.
- Follow your doctor's instructions on how to prepare the correct amount of medicine.
- Choose an injection site on your body (eg, abdomen or stomach area, thigh, upper arm, upper leg, hip). Clean the injection site with a fresh alcohol wipe, and let it dry.
- With two fingers, pinch together the skin at the injection site. Insert the needle with the tube under the skin.
- Put sterile gauze and tape over the injection site to keep the needle from coming out.
- Before starting the infusion, make sure no blood is flowing into the infusion tube. If blood is present, remove and throw away the used needle and tube.
- Follow your doctor's instructions on how to use the infusion pump.
- Remove the peel-off portion of the label from the used vial. Place this label in your treatment diary or log book. Write down the amount of medicine you used, the date, and the time of your treatment.
- It usually takes about 60 minutes for each infusion.
- When all of the medicine has been infused, turn off the pump.
- Take the gauze off and remove the needle and tube from your skin.
- Clean and store the infusion pump.
Missed dose
This medicine needs to be given on a fixed schedule. If you miss a dose or forget to use your medicine, call your doctor or pharmacist for instructions.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Store the Hizentra® product at room temperature, away from heat and moisture, for up to 30 months. Keep from freezing. Protect the product from direct light. Keep the medicine in its original package until you are ready to use it.
Store the Gamunex®-C product in its original container and in the refrigerator, but do not freeze it.
You may store the Gammagard Liquid or Gammaked™ product in the refrigerator or at room temperature. Check the box or label of the vials for expiration dates. Store it in the original container. Do not freeze. Talk with your pharmacist if you have questions about storage of this product.
Throw away used needles and tubes in a hard, closed container where the needles cannot poke through. Keep this container away from children and pets.
Precautions while using Gamimune N
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits for any problems that may be caused by this medicine. Blood and urine tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) should not be treated with Gammaked™ or Gamunex®-C that is injected under the skin (subcutaneously). Doing so may increase the risk of having a hematoma (buildup of blood under the skin).
This medicine may cause fever, chills, flushing, headaches, nausea, and vomiting, especially if you are receiving it for the first time or if you have not received it for more than 8 weeks. Check with your doctor or nurse right away if you have any of these symptoms.
This medicine is made from donated human blood. Some human blood products have transmitted certain viruses to people who have received them, although the risk is low. Human donors and donated blood are both tested for viruses to keep the transmission risk low. Talk with your doctor if you have concerns about this risk.
This medicine may cause a serious type of allergic reaction, including anaphylaxis, which can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. Tell your doctor right away if you have a rash, itching, hives, chest pain, dizziness or lightheadedness, trouble breathing, trouble swallowing, or any swelling of your hands, face, or mouth after receiving this medicine. Certain people, including those with IgA (an immunoglobulin) deficiency and antibodies against IgA and a history of hypersensitivity to human immunoglobulin products should not use this medicine.
Check with your doctor right away if you start to have a stiff neck, drowsiness, fever, severe headache, nausea, vomiting, painful eye movements, or eye sensitivity to light. These could be symptoms of a serious condition called aseptic meningitis syndrome (AMS).
This medicine may cause bleeding (hemolysis) or hemolytic anemia. Tell your doctor right away if you have stomach or back pain, dark urine, decreased urination, difficulty with breathing, an increased heart rate, tiredness, or yellow eyes or skin after you receive the medicine.
Check with your doctor right away if you start having chest pain, difficult, fast, or noisy breathing, blue lips and fingernails, fever, pale skin, increased sweating, coughing that sometimes produces a pink frothy sputum, shortness of breath, or swelling of the legs and ankles after receiving this medicine. These may be symptoms of a serious lung problem.
This medicine may cause blood clots. This is more likely to occur if you have a history of blood clotting problems, heart disease, or atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), or if you are obese, take medicines containing estrogen, or must stay in bed for a long time because of surgery or illness. Check with your doctor right away if you suddenly have chest pain, severe headache, leg pain, or problems with vision, speech, or walking.
Check with your doctor right away if you start having red or dark brown urine, lower back or side pain, sudden weight gain, swollen face, arms, or legs, decreased urine output, or any problems with urination after you receive this medicine. These may be symptoms of a serious kidney problem.
Your blood pressure might get too high while you are using this medicine. This may cause headaches, dizziness, or blurred vision. You might need to measure your blood pressure at home. If you think your blood pressure is too high, call your doctor right away.
Make sure any doctor or dentist who treats you knows that you are using this medicine. This medicine may affect the results of certain medical tests.
Gamimune N side effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
More common
- Back pain
- black, tarry stools
- blurred vision
- chest pain
- chills
- cough
- dark urine
- decreased urination
- diarrhea
- dizziness
- fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
- fever
- general feeling of discomfort or illness
- headache
- joint pain
- loss of appetite
- muscle aches and pains
- nausea
- nervousness
- noisy breathing
- pain in the arms or legs
- painful or difficult urination
- pounding in the ears
- rash
- runny nose
- shivering
- slow or fast heartbeat
- sore throat
- sores, ulcers, or white spots on the lips or in the mouth
- stomach pain
- sweating
- swollen glands
- tightness in the chest
- trouble sleeping
- troubled breathing
- unusual bleeding or bruising
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- vomiting
- yellow eyes or skin
Less common
- Bluish coloring of the lips or nail beds
- burning sensation in the head
- faintness or lightheadedness
- Difficulty with swallowing
- hives or welts
- itching, especially of the feet or hands
- reddening of the skin, especially around the ears
- swelling of the eyes, face, or inside of the nose
Incidence not known
- Back, leg, or stomach pains
- blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin
- blood in the urine
- change in vision
- changes in blood pressure
- changes in urination
- chest pain or discomfort
- cold, clammy, or pale skin
- confusion
- decreased frequency or amount of urine
- difficult or labored breathing
- difficulty seeing at night
- dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a lying or sitting position
- feeling of warmth
- headache that is severe and occurs suddenly
- hoarseness
- increased sensitivity of the eyes to sunlight
- increased thirst
- irritation
- joint stiffness or swelling
- light-colored stools
- loss of appetite
- loss of consciousness
- low blood pressure or pulse
- lower back or side pain
- muscle spasm or jerking of all extremities
- pains in the chest, groin, or legs, especially calves of the legs
- seizures
- shakiness in the legs, arms, hands, or feet
- skin blisters
- slow breathing
- slurred speech that occurs suddenly
- sudden, severe weakness or numbness in the arm or leg
- sweating
- swelling of the face, fingers, lower legs, or ankles
- weight gain
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
More common
- Lack or loss of strength
- redness, swelling, itching, or pain at the injection site
Less common
- Hip pain
- leg cramps
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Further information
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POSTED: Monday, January 27, 2014
LONDON (AP) - Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe.
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The "Year" of the "Grad"
The Grad Wreckage is still pouring in, and here I'm rapidly running out of snappy titles. Drat.
And one more for you "unnecessary" quotation marks fans:
And speaking of hard-to-read cakes, there oughta be a law against squiggles that look like words:
Elle? Ollie? Edie? Why does the confetti look like writing, and the diploma scroll look like a Seuss hat? Especially when everyone knows you're supposed to make them look like Swiss Rolls, like this?


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Every president plays a symbolic, almost mythological role that's hard to talk about, much less quantify—it's like trying to grab a ball of mercury. I'm not referring to using the bully pulpit to shape the national agenda but to the way that the president, as America's most inescapably powerful figure, colors the emotional climate of the country. John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did this affirmatively, expressing ideals that shaped the whole culture. Setting a buoyant tone, they didn't just change movies, music, and television; they changed attitudes. Other presidents did the same, only unpleasantly. Richard Nixon created a mood of angry paranoia, Jimmy Carter one of dreary defeatism, and George W. Bush, especially in that seemingly endless second term, managed to do both at once.
While Barack Obama's election left a joyous imprint on American culture—most of us were thrilled to discover that we could sometimes be what we want to think we are—his presidency almost immediately began smudging it. Not only did his first three years leave few traces on the culture but they proved unexpectedly joyless. This is partly because he's been buffeted by economic hardship and an extremist opposition that has drowned out or misrepresented his many achievements. Back in January, a poll showed that more than half the country thought he had done "not very much" or "little or nothing." Which is bonkers. You may have a hard time swallowing what Obama's done, but like an order at the Olive Garden, there's undeniably a lot of it.
Still, Obama deserves his own share of blame for the emotional letdown of his first three years. Voters didn't elect him just for his policies; they voted for him because they expected that his presidency would be, if not transcendent, at least invigorating. Yet the truth is that he has often been boring—his first answer at his first presidential press conference ran 896 words—and eager to paint himself as the only grown-up in the room, a role that smacks of the school principal, not the visionary leader. Rather than relish his time in the White House, he's sometimes behaved like its prisoner.
At once formal and guarded, which needn't be the same thing, he hasn't yet forged an intimate bond with the American people (aside, that is, from those many millions who feel the distinctive intimacy of hatred). That helps explain why his favorability numbers keep roller-coastering. If Americans don't vote for him again, it won't simply be because of gas prices, unemployment, or conservative efforts to take him down. It will be because of something more personal. Confused by the difference between the incandescent candidate and the professorial president, they're still not sure what to make of him.
One person he's clearly not is Bill Clinton, the first president of the 24/7 media juggernaut that keeps redefining our sense of what's public and what's private. Clinton's policies might break your heart (he could feel your pain while signing legislation that increased it), but as that recent PBS documentary reminded us, he was always interesting, whether parsing the is-ness of "is," playing "Heartbreak Hotel" on Arsenio, or talking about his underpants on MTV—not to mention his taste for fleshy ribs and women. The Clinton presidency was an early reality show, and if most people still liked him when it ended (he would've won a third term), this wasn't only because the economy went boom. It was that everyone, even those who hated him, felt they knew him. Glimpsing themselves in his strengths and luxuriantly carnal weaknesses, Americans have never had a more intimate relationship with their president.
Clinton's life was such a circus that commentator Kurt Andersen famously dubbed him "entertainer-in-chief." His presidency demonstrated that the country had entered a new relationship between those in the Oval Office and those who put them there. Where the mass media once brought the public closer to their presidents than ever before—the radio "fireside chats" made Franklin Roosevelt seem like a jaunty uncle dropping into your home—the tabloiding of American media makes the White House feel besieged by barbarians who will rip it and the country to pieces for better ratings or more hits. Small wonder that both of Clinton's successors have treated his example as a cautionary tale, becoming obsessed with controlling (as they say) the narrative.
Obama has been suspicious, if not hostile, toward a media that, eager to love him during his rise, now find him annoyingly sniffy. In a way, this is surprising, for if anyone would seem perfect for our media age, it's him. Like Kennedy, he has a cool, even regal, style that plays well on the cool medium of TV and a charisma that producers and editors hope to milk. But unlike Kennedy, Obama governs in a media culture that's too fast, too intrusive, too competitive, and too many--tentacled to be anything but treacherous. We are long past the day when newsmen swooned because Jackie Kennedy invited Pablo Casals to the White House, let alone when JFK could hang out with big-time reporters who were envious of (and remained silent about) the cavalier ease with which he got all those blow jobs. Indeed, we may never again see a day when the White House treats the media as anything but its enemy. In this respect, our presidents are all Nixon now.
Such mistrust has limited Obama's ability to create an emotional bond with the public, many of whom find him a bit, well, alien. Americans like their presidents to share themselves, at least a little, so we can sense what makes them tick. But on top of a suspicion of the media, Obama is affected by other factors. One, obviously, is race: As the first black president, he has had to be careful not to come off flip (as with his early maladroit joke about Nancy Reagan's séances); this made it almost inevitable that he would overplay his intrinsic seriousness, especially as it was precisely this that had allowed him to thrive in a white world. The other is a cherished sense of self-possession. It's not that Obama doesn't want us ever to see him sweat. It's that, paradoxical in a man who sought and won the world's biggest job, he sometimes doesn't want us to see him at all.
In this, he resembles a less sunny—and less popular—version of Ronald Reagan, whose own persona was so elusive that he reduced his prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris to writing a fictionalized memoir and family members to puzzling over who the heck that guy was. Obama has learned to manage, or suppress, the psychic fallout of being the brilliant, mixed-race son of two seekers, one reliable, the other vaingloriously selfish, who endowed him with a childhood of rare, unsettling fluidity. Even now, one marvels at the discipline it took for this born outsider to become the self-possessed law student in blue shirt and chinos who, thanks to YouTube, we can watch addressing a 1991 Harvard rally—even then he was a cool customer—or the young attorney who wrote Dreams from My Father, a self-exposing book that transforms his unruly background into a finely wrought creation myth that closes off as much as it opens up.
Where Clinton could shake voters' hands until the last dog died, and then give a long eulogy over Fido's grave, Obama doesn't seek or need the crowd's love—though he does need its energy to bring out his best. (His worst speeches have come sitting in the Oval Office where his only audience is the camera.) Bush could repeat the same WMD falsehoods as tirelessly as a parrot. Obama, though, grows impatient with having to say the same things over and over; his America is a graduate seminar, not some remedial class for slow learners. Not one to mingle with his old colleagues on the Hill, he's adopted a presidential style built around carefully staged public performances.
Better at set pieces than spontaneity—nearly all his rhetorical mistakes are off-the-cuff throwaways—he thrives on the ceremonial splendor of big moments. Just as Reagan shone after disasters like the Challenger explosion, so Obama was at his best in his Tucson speech about the shootings that targeted Representative Gabrielle Giffords. You can see why he prefers making speeches to giving press conferences, for the former lets him be in charge of both his message and his self-presentation; he loves dusting off his gravitas. Then, too, he's really, really good at it. Here's where one can feel the difference between Obama the president and Obama the candidate. Where his stirring oratory was key to his 2008 victory, once in office, his reliance on this strength has often proved counter-productive. Having voted him in, Americans wanted an easier, more conversational relationship that would let them relate to their leader; unfortunately, even the finest public speeches can't help but feel like performances. They inspire more admiration than personal rapport.
As competitive as he is serene, Obama clearly wants to win at everything he does, be it a pickup basketball game, re-election, or the verdict of History. But physique aside, he often reminds me of Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA center who was his era's most dominating player yet didn't believe it necessary to knock himself out every single game—he'd turn it on when he got to the playoffs. I followed Obama as he was running for Senate and was struck by how skillfully he paced himself on the trail, low-keying it at small stops, rousing himself to table-pounding eloquence at big-city dinners. Sitting alone, he sank into himself as if he were his own hot tub, as comfortable in his skin as the Buddha, yet when someone approached, he came to life, his killer smile exploding like a flashbulb.
Obama is one who can turn it on. Kicking into high gear as the campaign is upon us, he's suddenly all over the news doing things that may be cold-blooded politics but suggest warm-blooded humanity—singing "Let's Stay Together" at the Apollo, talking hoops on Bill Simmons's ESPN podcast (he wowed sports-talk hosts with his detailed knowledge of Blake Griffin's jump shot), phoning Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh's noxious name-calling, and giving a ripsnorter of a speech to the United Auto Workers that had the crowd chanting "Four more years! Four more years!" even though the event was officially nonpolitical. He's turning into the happy, engaged President Obama we've been missing, the one many of us have wanted him to be all along.
Everybody has their own theory for predicting who will win a presidential race—the candidate who has the most money, the candidate who runs the best campaign, the candidate who can attract soccer moms or Nascar dads. Allow me to propose what I modestly call The Powers Principle™. It holds that, in a presidential election, the winner will be the candidate who seems like the most fun. This is something larger than the dinky (and discredited) idea elaborated during Bush v. Gore—that Dubya is the candidate you'd "rather have a beer with." That is (forgive me) small beer. The "most fun" candidate is the one who, in style, attitude, and vision, will do the most to make America feel like the enjoyable and optimistic place that the world still envies.
Being more fun is why JFK beat Nixon in that 1960 nail-biter and why the risky but dashing Reagan trounced the familiar but be-sweatered Jimmy Carter. It's why Papa Bush could beat gray-souled Michael Dukakis yet lose to the Boy from Hope, who would go on to swamp Bob Dole, one of the wittiest politicians of the last half-century but cursed by his resemblance to the crabby duffer who runs your neighborhood hardware store. It's why Albert Gore's nyah-nyah prissiness made him vulnerable to Dubya's lack of pretension, which even in the middle of the botched Iraq War still seemed like a better time than John Kerry's boundless stentorian maundering ("And so I say to you …"). The one counterexample might appear to be Nixon's two victories, yet in '68, the old "Happy Warrior," Hubert Humphrey, looked hemorrhoidal the whole time, while the genuinely miserable Tricky Dick pretended to be happy, and four years later, George McGovern appeared to be offering not fun but chaos.
This historical trend is good news for Obama, who already lucked out once in getting to run against superannuated John McCain. This fall, the Republicans are going to put forward a candidate who is no fun at all, be it Mitt Romney, who never seems more animatronic than when trying to prove he's a regular, good-time guy, or Father Santorum, whose campaign would doubtless pass out rulers so we can whack our own knuckles whenever we have impure thoughts. Obama should outshine either of these sour America-in-declinesters unless he relapses and starts believing that voters want someone dead serious who will approach every issue with detached sobriety. Sure, we're voting for the man who will hold the world's fate in his hands, but never forget, we're also inviting someone into our inboxes for the next four years. We want him to be good company.


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If the Clerk discovers documents left in or about the Clerk's Office after business hours with a written request for filing or tender, and the documents are in order for filing or tender, they may be marked as filed or tendered as of the beginning of the following business day. Neither the Clerk nor any member of the Clerk's Office staff shall be responsible to see to it that documents are filed or tendered unless they are presented during business hours by a person delivering them to the Clerk's Office.
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J3272 : Derelict shops, Belfast (3)
taken 7 years ago, near to Beal Feirste, Springfield, Belfast County Borough, Shankill and Windsor, Northern Ireland
Redevelopment of The Village, Belfast :: J3273
The Village area of Belfast is due to undergo a major redevelopment starting in 2011. This is an extract from an official announcement:
Ritchie approves £100million investment for South Belfast
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie MLA, has today approved proposals for the £100million investment package to regenerate housing across the Village area of South Belfast . . . . . .
As part of this investment, 538 old homes, many unfit for further occupation, will be demolished and replaced by 273 new homes, built to the latest design and environmental standards. A number of other homes across the area will also be refurbished as part of wider plans that will be delivered over the coming years.
The photographs submitted by me appear as a matter of record only. I have no connection with the DSD or any of the other parties involved in the scheme. They should not be interpreted as having any political or campaigning motive.
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- Wednesday, 23 May, 2012 (more nearby)
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- Thursday, 24 May, 2012
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Really Great App, Highly Recommend! :)
I started using this app in January to offload some of my old clothes and fashion accessories, and I couldn't be happier with my experience as both a seller and a buyer! I have completed many orders without a hitch and made good money in doing so, and while the Poshmark fees are higher than you might see on some other apps it balances out with the convenience of having all the postage already paid for, and only having to pay for shipping materials (or even better just using free USPS envelopes and boxes). And as a buyer, I have found great pieces for myself and my family at very low prices, and everything has arrived as described with no problems. Although it's definitely best to bundle when you can and only pay for shipping once since it's kinda frustrating to pay $6.49 for shipping no matter whether the item you're getting is $5 or $50.
For me, this app is great for selling fashion items at are too nice for a garage sale or a store like Plato's Closet (no offense to them, they're great for cash on the spot), but maybe not what you could take to a consignment boutique. It's also better than consignment since you basically get paid on the spot for your items. And there's no minimum balance or stupid fees for making a bank withdrawal (unlike Mercari) and there's the option to get a physical check if you'd rather not provide your bank info. Overall a wonderful app, I've been recommending it to everyone I know!
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Shipping and site review
The shipping has increased which only leads me to believe it will continue to rise. If it continues to rise less people will sell and shop on here. The new tax added is ideal for sellers and I understand the reason behind it but I have noticed less people buying on here due to the new tax increase. They definitely should offer a lower shipping rate for items weighing under a pound. Most people don't want to pay almost $7 for shipping a pair of bikini bottoms that weigh nothing. If there was an option like other sites have for $4 to ship lighter items that would most definitely help increase sales and make people happier with shipping increase and also tax increase it will help give balance. If other sites have worked out with USPS to ship items for $4 there's no reason this app (which in my opinion is prob the leading app of its class) can't do the same! I agree it is amazing when it comes to heavier items it's by far the best! I just think it can be even better! If you think about it, cheaper shipping for buyers mean they buy more! As a company if you took even a little bit of a hit with shipping and offer $4 for lighter items your sales will overall increase and your gross profit will too! You will by far make more this way making people want to shop more! If you can figure out how to offer the $4 shipping it will also keep people from shipping the other sites because this site in my opinion is the best with the exception of shipping prices.
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- Poshmark, Inc.
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- Shopping
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Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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- Rated 4+
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- © 2019 Poshmark, Inc.
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- Free
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Speedy Rebuilding of Homes Is Top Priority
It's been two years since Japan's devastating tsunami and nuclear crisis turned the country's northeast region into a disaster zone. While the government pledged to rebuild the affected cities and towns, a full recovery is still nowhere in sight. Cities are struggling to move ahead with reconstruction plans, weighed down by a labyrinth of rules and regulations. With over 300,000 evacuees still living in temporary housing, more than 20,000 houses are needed. But only about 1,100 houses are currently under construction.
When the ruling Liberal Democratic Party took office in December, the party's leadership pledged to accelerate rebuilding and eliminate red tape. The new administration appointed Takumi Nemoto, a native of Fukushima Prefecture, as minister of the Reconstruction Agency. Residents of Fukushima suffered the impact of both the tsunami and nuclear crisis.


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Anything can happen for the Ottawa Senators in the city that never sleeps.
For general managers, NHL draft weekend involves many moving pieces
NEW YORK — Anything can happen for the Ottawa Senators in the city that never sleeps.
Senators general manager Bryan Murray says the organization is "open-minded" about any and all possibilities leading up to Sunday's NHL draft across the Hudson River in New Jersey.
The Senators could move up from their current 17th overall selection in the first round. They could slide down. They could even go without a first-round selection altogether, if, Murray says, there was "a good player that somebody wanted to give me."
While Murray has already worked the phones to see what offers are out there, the discussions will start heating up in the suites of Manhattan hotels Friday, pick up more steam Saturday and will hit a fever pitch Sunday morning and early afternoon, leading up to the start of the 3 p.m. draft.
After teams start making picks, a new round of feverish trade talks will begin on the draft floor.
At this point, Murray acknowledges there have been "no legitimate" offers from teams willing to give up a top five or even a top 10 selection, understanding that it's a difficult decision to deal away a player who could immediately step into a National Hockey League lineup.
Just the same, the day before the draft is usually filled with furious action as the league's 30 teams set up in their respective war rooms, with general managers, a slew of scouts, and sometimes even hands-on owners gathering to explore every avenue before the big day. From a scouting perspective, it's Super Bowl Sunday, the one day of the year for the NHL's bird dogs to make their mark after spending months drinking bad coffee in rinks from Russia to Red Deer.
It can be crazy. Just ask Craig Button, the former general manager of the Calgary Flames who now serves as a draft analyst and hockey insider for TSN and the NHL Network.
"It's a puzzle," says Button. "And not one of those flat puzzles with the corners. It's a 3-D puzzle, with stuff always moving around."
Button says it's a four-layered process for organizations, beginning with the hard grunt work of the scouts and the internal meetings, where all the strengths and weaknesses and of the top draft-eligible players are dissected in spirited discussions. In the Senators' case, director of player personnel Pierre Dorion says the Senators have their own master list of the top 150 prospects. "And sometimes, there's a healthy discussion between 78 and 79 because maybe that's our third-round pick or that's our fourth-round pick and we have to be prepared for that scenario," Dorion says.
Armed with that information, the league's general managers go into discussion mode with their peers, determining what is or isn't on the table in trade talks, including the possibility of moving up or down in the first round of the draft.
The general manager then meets again with his own scouting staff, outlining the options available and trusting the opinions of his scouts in weighing whether there's value in jumping up or sliding back.
Come draft day, "everything becomes fluid," according to Button, and "you have to be prepared to make quick decisions" based on what's happening.
"The (general) managers have to be ready to take direction from their scouting staff," he said.
Button credits Murray for making countless shrewd draft day deals over the years.
When Murray was general manager of the Anaheim Ducks in 2003 and had already secured Ryan Getzlaf with the 19th overall pick, he listened to his staff and traded away his 36th and 54th choices for the 28th selection, owned by the Dallas Stars. The Ducks got what they wanted: Corey Perry. Dallas ended up with someone named Votjek Polak and B.J. Crombeen with those two picks.
Most Senators fans know what happened at the 2008 draft in Ottawa. The Senators acquired the 15th pick from the Nashville Predators, giving back their 19th choice and another third round pick so they wouldn't lose the chance to pick a 150-pound defenceman named Erik Karlsson.
In 2010, the Senators were believed to have been interested in defenceman Derek Forbort with their 16th choice. Yet when the Los Angeles Kings chose Forbort with the 15th pick, Murray went back to the St. Louis Blues with a previously discussed trade option. The Senators dealt their 16th overall selection to St. Louis for the rights to defenceman David Rundblad. Rundblad was eventually used as part of the package to acquire Kyle Turris from the Phoenix Coyotes.
Rest assured, there will be action on the draft floor Sunday.
There has already been speculation about a potential blockbuster between the Colorado Avalanche and Calgary Flames. According to Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman, the Avalanche rejected a Flames offer of the sixth, 22nd and 28th selections for Colorado's first overall choice.
A report out of Carolina suggested Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford could swap his fifth overall selection for two later draft picks if his targeted pick — rumoured to be Valeri Nichushkin — is one of the first four players taken.
Adding to the intrigue Sunday is the fact some quality NHL players could also be on the move as part of packages involving draft picks. Teams with salary cap issues could be forced to trade expensive players in order to get under the $63 million cap for the 2013-14 season.
Boston Bruins defenceman Andrew Ference told Boston reporters that "with the current cap, Peter (Chiarelli, Bruins general manager) is not going to be able to keep me."
Could the Bruins get a first-round pick for Ference? A second-round choice? Welcome to the speculation game.
Now, let's look at the Toronto Maple Leafs. If the Maple Leafs wanted to unload salary in order to re-sign centre Tyler Bozak or to pursue pending unrestricted free agent David Clarkson of the New Jersey Devils, centre Mikhail Grabovski could be on the block. Grabovski has four years and $22 million remaining on his contract.
"He's a productive player and maybe he moves if there's a high draft pick involved," said Button. "Those types of players are the ones that might be in play."
The Senators aren't interested in Grabovski, but they will continue to push to climb up the draft list in order to select a player who has a shot at being NHL ready already.
Senators assistant general manager Tim Murray says it's not likely to happen. But then again, the best offers are still to come.
"If we were picking in the top five or 10, it would be extremely hard for (Bryan Murray) to come to Pierre (Dorion) and I and say 'we have a chance to move down, we can get a third line centre, we can get the 20th pick in the draft and we can get a second-round pick,''" he said. "It sounds exciting, but if the whole amateur (scouting) staff is in the suite in New York and that comes up, the chances are we are going to say no.
"But in saying that, there are teams out there that need NHL players. There are teams out there that are very thin. We're very, very deep, we have young depth players we've drafted and we've developed and we like them very much. We're not shopping them, but if that scenario came up, we would feel comfortable helping another team out with NHL players."
The trip to the New York area isn't just for drafting purposes.
It's also a shopping trip for the league's general managers.


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SLDTF Midwinter 2012 Agenda
The SLDTF agenda is to attend the Legislation Committee Meeting II (joint meeting with COL-GIS),
1:30-3:30 p.m., Dallas Convention Center D166
Note the location. The SLDTF will NOT be meeting in Omni Dallas Hotel Fair Park 2.
We will do the work of the Task Force electronically in 2012. Our goal is to get a Needs & Offers page for state level government documents on the SLDTF GODORT wiki. We need additional volunteers to check their own states and report where there might be significant collections of out-of-state materials which may be at risk for discard. We also want to identify libraries which wish to acquire historic state docs, either for digitization or to replace damaged copies.
We have a workspace in ALA Connect. Anyone may join by contacting Marie Concannon After being added as a member, you will be able to view additional content and participate more fully.


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Certified Pre-Owned 2017 NissanMaxima 3.5 SL Sedan
- Stock: UN125Z1
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- Odometer
- 28,538 miles
- Fuel Economy
- 21.0/30.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Pearl White
- Interior Color
- Charcoal
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Transmission
- continuously variable automatic
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 3.5L V-6 cyl
Nissan Maxima
Highlighted Features
- Navigation system
- Blind spot sensor
- Distance pacing cruise control
- Leather upholstery
- Automatic temperature control
- Power moonroof
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Parking sensors
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This Nissan won't be on the lot long!
This sedan lines up eagerly against competing models, delivering the perfect blend of power, safety and flair! Nissan prioritized comfort and style by including: a blind spot monitoring system, power moon roof, and power front seats. It features a continuously variable transmission, front-wheel drive, and a 3.5 liter 6 cylinder engine.
Our team is professional, and we offer a no-pressure environment. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. We are here to help you.
This sedan lines up eagerly against competing models, delivering the perfect blend of power, safety and flair! Nissan prioritized comfort and style by including: a blind spot monitoring system, power moon roof, and power front seats. It features a continuously variable transmission, front-wheel drive, and a 3.5 liter 6 cylinder engine.
Our team is professional, and we offer a no-pressure environment. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. We are here to help you.
Nissan certified. One owner. Clean auto check. No accidents. Non-smoker. Bluetooth. Panoramic sunroof. Navigation. Heated seats. Charcoal leather interior. Pearl white exterior.
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
- 5.0
love my new Maxima
By MaximaDriver on Sunday, May 14, 2017I purchased a new Maxima SL last month after wavering a lot between getting this car or another Honda Accord. The car has been a lot of fun to drive. The engine is very powerful and the CVT transmission is extremely smooth. The engine sounds different from a regular automatic transmission when accelerating hard, but in day-to-day driving it has not been much different -- it is predictable and smooth. I read some reviews that complained about the steering, but in my experience, steering is fine---precise and predictable. Inside, the car really feels like a luxury car with high-quality materials throughout, nicely detailed stitching, extremely comfortable leather seats, a large moon roof, heated seats, a heated steering wheel, and many many other features. The large display in the center of the dashboard works well (its angled slightly towards the driver) and is intuitive and easy to use (much more so than the system in the Accord, in my opinion). The navigation system works well (voice-operated control optional) with detailed instructions on the screen in the center of the dashboard and I like it that it also gives directions in the small display behind the steering wheel, so there is no need to take your eyes off the road. I got the car for a superb price after learning about current incentives from Nissans site and soliciting some quotes from an automotive internet site. The one downside that I can think of so far is that premium fuel is recommended for this car, which is around 0.40/gallon more than regular in my area. That said, I have been getting excellent mileage on the interstate---up to 33MPG if I drive carefully. Im surprised that I dont see more Maximas on the road given how much value it has to offer. If youre in the market for a sporty/luxury sedan, take the Maxima for a test drive..
- 4.0
My favorite car I've ever owned
By Mike on Sunday, March 17, 2019I LOVE THIS CAR. I did quite a bit of research on the maxima before I got it. The biggest complaint by reviewers was the cvt transmission. However, if you're looking for the best of both worlds (comfort and sport) this is the car for you. I understand the cvt doesn't scream sports car, but it's very smooth. The car is also very quiet, but has a nice little growl under heavy acceleration. This car has 2 big downfalls. One is interior space. It's definetly smaller inside than it looks on the outside. Backseat room is lacking. The second is depreciation. This car loses its value quickly and by ALOT. However with suv's being all the rage these days, it's not surprising. That being said, I'll take this 300hp beast over a crossover suv 100 times out of 100 times. On top of the 300hp engine, gas mileage is great for that much power (thanks to the cvt). If you want something that's fun to drive, quiet, smooth and comfortable, check the maxima out. Just make sure your family/passengers check out the back seat first lol.
- 5.0
Affordable high-tech sports sedan
By Poppy on Monday, January 08, 2018The 2018 Maxima Platinum is the perfect luxury sports sedan. It is comfortable, luxurious, and powerful. It is comfortable to ride and fun to drive.