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Articles in Nov 19, 2001 issue of Insight on the News

• Were terrorist actions timed to mark historic anniversary?
  by Rosemary Fielding
• U.S. intelligence agencies weren't stirred, but now may be shaken
  by Sean Paige
• A world sans socrates, potatoes: practicing `alternate history' can be a trifling indulgence or an insightful exercise. It's most engaging when most provocative, as a new collection of essays proves
  by Woody West
• Conspiracy of silence hides Saudi connection to terrorism
  by Arnaud De Borchgrave
• Benjamin Franklin speaks for today
  by Stephen Goode
• Who bought off the think tanks? Corporations eager to do business with China have cozied up to conservative think tanks, raising concerns about their influence level on foreign-policy analysis
  by Michael Rust
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• Thai police chief orders officers to quit playing golf
  by Stephen Goode
• Still a long wait for anthrax vaccine: only one company, BioPort Corp., manufactures the vaccine for anthrax, and it faces many a hurdle before it can make the inoculation available to the public
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Terrorism tuesday's international toll
  by John Elvin
• Reno's shameful record should make voters recoil
  by Roger Bowlus
• Deregulation of broadband industry could spur economic revival
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Severing Liberia's sinews of war: the U.N. is preparing new sanctions against Liberia's strongman Charles Taylor, who seized that African country's profitable international shipping registry and is brokering `conflict diamonds' from guerrillas
  by Kenneth R. Timmerman
• Symposium
  by Tom Giovanetti
• Cell phones scare away British ghosts
  by Stephen Goode
• Iraq connections to U.S. extremists: in the global war on terror, law-enforcement officials may need to look in our own backyard for clues about who sent anthrax to Capitol Hill and TV anchormen
  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
• The case of the disappearing webpage
  by John Elvin
• Reno earns sparse support in poll or from Florida democrats
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Greens exploit terror against GE: greens cry foul as GE takes the offensive to try and head off a $500 million EPA-mandated cleanup of PCB-tainted sediment in New York's Hudson River
  by John Elvin
• Niskanen warns of federal power: William Niskanen, the chairman of the Cato Institute, expresses grave concern about the expanding powers of government, especially in light of the terrorist attacks
  by Stephen Goode
• Reader says foster gives feminists a good name
  by Joel Haak
• Drop-in doughnuts
  by Sean Paige
• Fall classics: directors offer cheeky takes on classic genres: romantic comedy and film noir
  by Rex Roberts
• Root causes of anger against anti-American college faculty
  by Alan L. Anderson
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Banks and suspicion: government-required surveillance provisions in the newly passed antiterrorism bills could force banks to rob their customers of both financial privacy and convenience. But how will the provisions aid in curtailing terrorism?
  by John Berlau
• Did you know?
  by John Elvin
• Dependents on social security overlooked in bad economy
  by Margaret McConnell
• Pentagon reformers are ready to open war on second front
  by Sean Paige
• A faith with many faces: Islam is monotheistic, but as a religion it never has been monolithic. Theological, ethnic, historical and political divisions have divided Muslims for centuries
  by David R. Sands
• Civil liberties and homeland defense
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Security precautions don't relieve concerns at airports
  by Cari Gillespie
• Crises and mixed messages
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• The `pocket partner' for troubled times
  by John Elvin
• Militant Islam's long memory of history
  by Woody West