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...Harvard wins the Ivy League this season, just remember to send a championship ring to the guys who set the schedules—and maybe Greg Smith...
...times have changed even for the most super among us. It's hard to imagine teen Clark or the Tick enlisting to fight against Osama bin Laden (though al-Qaeda actually fits the mold of the comics' stateless supervillains better than Hitler and Tojo did). But both series ring differently after Sept. 11 in ways that will test how the conflict has affected pop culture. Smallville's most interesting character is not Clark but Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), who will someday become Superman's enemy but here, for now, is a lonely if cynical rich kid who wants...
...soldiers, including crack Mountain Division platoons, as well as an unspecified number of British special forces. There are regular incoming flights of heavy U.S. cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security patrols. According to officials who have visited the facility, many of the aircraft lie protected in underground bunkers...
When the sack is finally pulled off my head, 20 minutes after the attack began, I am a different person. I know what it feels like to have my wedding ring yanked from my finger, to anticipate the feel of bullets piercing my skin as my captor forced me to a kneeling position and then put a second, even darker, sack over the first. When it is finally over, I look at my fellow course members from Amnesty International with heightened concern. They will be leaving in a few days for Pakistan and may even go to Afghanistan. When...
These are mainstream voices in the Islamic world—and they make President Bush’s insistence that “the terrorists are traitors to their own faith” ring a trifle hollow. Anti-Semitism runs deep in today’s Islamic world. But violence, and the rhetoric of religious war, runs still deeper. This, too, we must understand—that however much it may pain the goo-goos and Oprah-watchers to admit, our enemies are Islamic, and their ideology is rooted in Islamic traditions that stretch all the way back to when...