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...public still trying to comprehend how Britain could have spawned four home-grown suicide bombers, who killed 52 people in last year's attack on the London Underground. And Britain's domestic security services warn that some 200 Islamic extremist networks - involving around 1,600 individuals - continue to plot and plan on British soil...
...Goodman also charged that Gates personally rewrote a 1985 CIA report on the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II so it would prove Casey's belief that Moscow was behind the shooting, even though agency analysts had no conclusive evidence establishing Soviet complicity in the plot. A later internal CIA review panel report concluded that there had in fact been "serious shortcomings" in how the reports were produced and charged that "alternate explanations" that disproved a Soviet conspiracy "were not adequately examined...
...many plots in Next (and doesn't that title belong to Michael Lewis?) are linked together by a collection of coincidences so haphazard and unbelievable that it's almost shocking to read them under the byline of a novelist as seasoned as Crichton. It's possible he is trying something new here, that he deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind...
...demeanor that’s both tough and flirtatious.With such a strong first act, Act II is a bit of an anticlimax, except for the trio “Nevermind the Why and Wherefore.” Polk, Hill, and Forbess match each other in jolly satisfaction, as they plot out their romantic futures—and it’s delightful to watch them gleefully dance together.The only downside is the lack of leading roles for women—but that’s unavoidable coming from Victorian England. Costume designer Casey M. Lurtz ’07 draws...
...Allston and confused. There is no rocking. There is no rolling. There are no drunken teenagers and there is nary a “Fuck Yale” sign to be found. Turns out, this is not the result of the lame-ass tailgate restrictions but an evil plot concocted by the cruel, misleading bastards at Google Maps.11:00 a.m.—I retrace my steps, finally busting into tailgate city. A small performance area is set up near the entrance. I’ve only missed one band in the Battle.Overall enthusiasm is running high as emcees Shirley...