year since 1990.) The great shark scare of 2001 — already speeding to the dustbin of history, along with such other summer ephemera as Gary Condit, Robert Blake and Lizzie Grubman — was typical of an age in which we inflated troublesome but passing crises into catastrophes that provided the illusion of a n

ously a critical place holder in the Indian Ocean and thereby through and into the Pacific Theatre and the recent comments from Assistant Secretary Robert Blake seem to give off a sense of tacit support and endorsement of the Waheed Presidency but I would like to know the official "unofficial" position of th