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...already pressing. The government is continuing to look for possible accomplices, but, said Attorney General Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only a few and they will prove to be mere "facilitators." In particular, some investigators have come to doubt that the far-famed John Doe No. 2 actually exists; others think that even if he does, he is only a minor figure in the plot...
...mere musicianship doesn't make a band a legend. The Dead had this: Like no other group in the era of megamoney rock, Garcia's gang fused with its fondest listeners. In 1965 the group's first fan club, with all of three members, called itself the Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion--a name that the Dead gratefully took as the title of the first song on its first album. Over time, Deadheads improvised their own vocabulary, infrastructure and code of honor. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said they were the most recently developed tribe on the planet...
...those islands aflame. From March to May, enormous sections of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kawasaki and Yokohama were incinerated. The raids on Tokyo had to be called off after May because scarcely any major targets were left. Of the carnage, LeMay said, "No point in slaughtering civilians for the mere sake of slaughter." He was after military production. But, he added, "the entire population got into the act and worked to make those airplanes or munitions of war ... We knew we were going to kill a lot of women and kids ... Had to be done...
...crucifix in urine. Years of adroit propaganda by the religious right have convinced many of them that a vote for preserving the nea in any form is a vote for sodomy, blasphemy and child abuse. This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact...
...brain.'' Nonsense. Without experience and memory, the brain is mindless. LEWIS P. LIPSITT Providence, Rhode Island Via E-mail Particularly muddled is the idea that consciousness is just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a conscious phenomenon. Thus the view of consciousness as mere illusion contradicts itself. We must do more than reduce the mind to a mass of brain circuits if we want to understand subjective human experience. DONALD MENDER, M.D. New York City...