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...convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...
...sounds like a monologue joke: DAVID LETTERMAN'S ratings have dipped so much that SALMAN RUSHDIE hides out on his show. The novelist, introduced as a man "who doesn't get out very often," handed over the Top 10 List on Friday's Late Show in London. "If you need me, I'll be at the London Plaza Hotel," joked Rushdie, who is in hiding from a death sentence under Islamic law. He later talked with Letterman's mom. "Exchanging recipes," said Dave...
TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighsays Republican congressmen David McIntosh of Indiana and Matt Salman of Arizona are circulating a letter urging the members to drop their opposition. "They regard it as a fig leaf allowing these members to come back into the fold," Burleigh says...
...Writer Salman Rushdie is still under a death threat from Iran. Today, Iran's official Islamic Propagation Organization announced a "great competition" to mark the sixth year of its fatwa against the novelist-in-hiding for penning "The Satanic Verses," which offended Muslims. Under contest rules, the author of the best short story about Rushdie's "moments of fear and anxiety" will win 10 gold coins. (Second and third place winners get five and three gold coins, respectively.) Entries must be submitted by Apr. 20. It was unclear whether Rushdie himself is eligible...
...BEEN ALMOST SIX YEARS SINCE Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini put a price on the head of Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. Since then the world has grown ever more complacent about Rushdie's predicament even as he has done his share of -- entirely justified -- complaining and hectoring; the author now resembles, in some minds, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, a man doomed by an unwitting offense to go on talking about his fate to any listener he can corner...