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...strangest thing about it is, we've been here before. It all started with a little-known Oxford professor whose specialty was the West Midland dialect of Middle English. Beginning with The Hobbit, a story he invented in the early 1930s to amuse his children, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's novels first became merely popular and then turned into a phenomenon. When a pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeding On Fantasy | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...called al-Qaeda Town. In an audacious show of force by an organization that is supposed to be on the run, al-Qaeda, according to U.S. and Afghan officials, has claimed the hamlet as its own and is using the redoubt as a base for attacks on U.S. forces. Strangest of all, this is happening in Afghanistan proper, where the U.S. military has, in theory, freedom of action to move against al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to al-Qaeda Town | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...Brian D. Hillfor ’05 was macked on by the pretty and fit Ellen K. Schottenberg ’05 on Friday. Said his roommate, “I once saw a circus of trained gay cats catch fire, and Brian being hit on was still the strangest thing I’ve ever seen?...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...Like all detainees, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jump suit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life - to Guantanamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from Guantanamo | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

...smoke too much hashish and laze around." Like all prisoners, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jumpsuit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life?to Guant?namo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Way Home | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

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