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Yesterday’s attacks were all the more frightening because they did not require sophisticated technology, only knives and organization. They are frightening because of the inhumanity of those who made airplanes bearing scores of passengers into weapons and because of the attacks’ seemingly random and inexplicable nature. These actions of unnamed terrorists—for as of yet no known political cause, for no end but violence—were intended to inspire fear in all human beings who only wish to live their lives in peace...
...Brothers, war is more than hell; war is real. No one is consumed by a pillowy fireball or gasps out a soliloquy before expiring. Men are shot in midsentence, drop like sacks of flour and die sloppily, whining like animals. This is war as it happened, brutal and random, and in re-creating it Brothers captures viscerally the extraordinary sacrifice of a generation of ordinary...
Want to know precisely when and where the People's Republic of China will begin to collapse? Gordon G. Chang's boldly titled The Coming Collapse of China (Random House; 320 pages) presumes to tell you. A counterrevolution, probably violent, will come five years after China's entry into the World Trade Organization. If, as expected, China joins the WTO later this year, the apocalypse will therefore be upon us in 2006. And it will begin in the most prosaic setting: the lobbies of Chinese banks?as millions try to withdraw their savings and deposit them in Western banks...
...Living on a Prayer” is never very melodious, but is belted out with a fair amount of gusto and no thought for intonation. And though we can now all sing along to at least a good portion of “Killer Queen,” a random survey of the staff would probably not yield the answer to the question, “Is this Holst or Shostakovich...
...thought that being pursued by a random 30-year-old man was slightly off-putting, my most recent experience with instruction made me fear for my life. I showed up to CBI one day last week and put my name in for instruction. I took a boat out with a man in his 40s who’d been sailing for about five years, in what seemed to me to be gale-force winds. For some reason, he had purposefully left his glasses behind, forcing me to sail the entire time. The wind was incredibly strong, so the boat heeled...