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...that's just background music for what is already on its way to being a monster news week. The bin Laden asset-freezing continues, the Taliban says he's hidden in-country and practically dares us to bomb away. The Russians are arming the rebels. (Oh. And the Supreme Court disbarred Clinton.) Congress might reveal its thinking on the rest of that $100 billion in the wings, and the Pentagon could be ready to reveal a little might...
...takes nothing away from Bush, and the clenched-jaw poise with which he delivered his speech to Congress, to say that but two weeks ago, few would have thought him adequate to the task he now faces. At first blush, there is little in the President's background that equips him for his new mission. He is not a young man--10 years older than John F. Kennedy was at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, only four years younger than Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the original day of infamy. But for someone age 55, he has often seemed...
Aliens blowing up the White House. Calling game-show contestants "Survivors." Background shots of the New York City skyline. Caring about Gary Condit's and Anne Heche's love lives. Videogame warriors blasting through ruins. Insult comedy. Smug, detached comedy. Political comedy. These are just a few more of the casualties of Sept...
...Muslim, an American and a citizen of the world, I am deeply repelled and saddened by these barbarous attacks, which hurt all people who value human life, regardless of their background or beliefs. I am also outraged anyone could claim that such cold-blooded and cowardly acts were religious in purpose; they are certainly not sanctioned by Islam. When I drove home from Washington and saw firsthand the devastation at the Pentagon, I could not help crying and wondering what the world was coming to. ATHAR A. PIRZADA Springfield...
...indeterminate future, you stand in a crowd in the Great Glass Elevator. Like all elevators, this one comes wired for sound—soulless, slick, electronic muzak. Yet something is not quite right—rather than being the irritatingly-pacifying background-stuff, it keeps sneaking into your frontal lobes with growls of distortion, electronic shrieks and incendiary little licks. As the elevator gathers pace, your colleagues strip off their suit-jackets and ties, and the elevator becomes a sky-rocketing disco?...