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| | William Gibson |
 | | I think OBL needed a logo moment, though, in terms of the ongoing validity of his global brand, and look what he's been able to pull off, with virtually no outlay: The world's full attention, as both candidates drop everything to respond. |
 | | A central part of my sense of history, since the attacks, has been that OBL and Bush are symbiotic, feeding one another power and (at least as crucially) meaning. |
 | | OBL today is probably a very satisfied, very optimistic man, and if he can skew the last-minute dynamic of the election in Bush's favor, he'll have cause to be all the more satisfied. |
| www.williamgibsonbooks.com /blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp (5314 words) |
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