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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44494)	8/30/2003 8:17:10 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

On lighter side...Zachary's travails... So it seems that the FX rumor mill is quite unreliable since Saddam is still loose. However interesting enough the City of London, the financial district, had lost power at 18:21pm and remained shut till 1900hrs. London transport failed and I was unable get home for half hour or since my tube station, Bank, was shut and full of aimless bankers milling about with increasing frustration. Thankfully only Central London experienced power failure and residential West London, where I live with my family, was still running smoothly so the power cut was a vey temporary phenomenon (nothing like in the states). However I walked all the way to Goldmans office in Fleet street from the River Thames to pick up my older brother since I thought that these blackouts surely presaged a terrorist attack. Only later at home did I realise how living in a first world country for the past four years had "wusified" me. In Pakistan when we had these sort of incidents, which were frequent enough to earn the nickname "loadshedding", my mother and aunt would sit us down and devise interesting games with the emergency flash lights, sold in every decent utillity store. It was an accepted part of life but now in London when there is any deviation from the ruthless efficiency of urban life, a subliminal fear starts to manifest itself that all is not well. It confirms an earlier belief of mine that modern civilisation feminises a population and saps it's martial spirit. That is why America to be dynamic needs immigrants, and refugees, to be reminded what the world is really like and what it is to live in strife. Reality is jaded, jarring and frightening for the huddled masses and those who live in comfort cannot truly empathise until the latter are brought to the midst of modern life. Immigration is the life blood of the American nation and each wave is an injection that immunises America to the constantcy of civilisation. www.latif.blogspot.com