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...evil and vice versa. Characters are killed ... or are they? Even Felicity had two series finales--the second showing what would have happened if Felicity had made different choices in college. Abrams has reinvented Alias several times, this season by dialing back an overcomplex story line involving a Nostradamus-like prophecy...
Nobody saw this happening - not Wall Street, not Vegas, not Poor Richard, not Nostradamus...
...sobriety didn’t last very long. Before this there was Laci Peterson, before her it was J. Lo and Ben... according to the Lycos internet service, it took only a year for the top five words searched on the Net to revert from “Nostradamus, World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden, New York City, Terrorism” to “KaZaA, Dragonball, Tattoos, West Nile Virus, Britney Spears.” The Michael Jackson business is a sign, not a shift, of cultural trends. Still, with two years and a bit behind us, the return...
...experience of last fall--the terrorist attacks, the anthrax deaths--not only deepened the interest among Christians fluent in the language of Armageddon and Apocalypse. It broadened it as well, to an audience that had never paid much attention to the predictions of the doomsday prophet Nostradamus, or been worried about an epic battle that marks the end of time, or for that matter, read the Book of Revelation. Since Sept. 11, people from cooler corners of Christianity have begun asking questions about what the Bible has to say about how the world ends, and preachers have answered their questions...
...from Virginia, obligated but terrified to tell Nicholas the truth, and it becomes clear that some in the family blame Robert (a Fundamentalist Christian and cultural outsider) for Michele's having to work and, thus, for her death. One Lanza sister becomes catatonic; another is fixated on a bogus Nostradamus prediction about the attacks circulating on the Internet. Michele's mother is consumed with anger at Muslims: "I want them tortured," she rages. "Men, women, children." As if to counter this reaction, Whitney traces another flyer to the Brooklyn home of Shabbir Ahmed, a Bangladeshi waiter killed in the attacks...