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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (12019)	1/22/2003 11:24:08 PM
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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (12019)	1/23/2003 2:36:27 PM
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Dollar Lower Against Major Currencies on Russia News story.news.yahoo.com

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (12019)	1/23/2003 3:09:51 PM
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Currencies: Fiscal Stimulus + a Large C/A Deficit = a Weak U.S. Dollar morganstanley.com

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (12019)	1/23/2003 4:08:37 PM
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The Roots of Muslim Rage Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified by Bernard Lewis theatlantic.com Clearly, something deeper is involved than these specific grievances, numerous and important as they may be -- something deeper that turns every disagreement into a problem and makes every problem insoluble. ULTIMATELY, the struggle of the fundamentalists is against two enemies, secularism and modernism. The war against secularism is conscious and explicit, and there is by now a whole literature denouncing secularism as an evil neo-pagan force in the modern world and attributing it variously to the Jews, the West, and the United States. The war against modernity is for the most part neither conscious nor explicit, and is directed against the whole process of change that has taken place in the Islamic world in the past century or more and has transformed the political, economic, social, and even cultural structures of Muslim countries. Islamic fundamentalism has given an aim and a form to the otherwise aimless and formless resentment and anger of the Muslim masses at the forces that have devalued their traditional values and loyalties and, in the final analysis, robbed them of their beliefs, their aspirations, their dignity, and to an increasing extent even their livelihood...