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...June 2, 1986, Newsweek magazine reported that college-educated women over 40 were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to get married. America was facing a “man shortage,” the article said, citing new research by two Yale University sociologists and a Harvard economist.The results of the study, which were received with a flood of attention, perplexed Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and feminist Susan C. Faludi ‘81. It was then-in response to the cover of Newsweek, rather than the glossy pages of a fashion rag-that the investigation...
...massacre. Within days of TIME's story (which was picked up by the Arab media), pamphlets appeared in Haditha, congratulating ?those who participated in exposing the dirty deeds of the Americans.? The pamphlets were released by a group using the name ?Islamic Resistance? - a cover for the terrorist group Ansar al-Sunnah. TIME's story was cited in websites and Internet bulletin boards known to be used by insurgent groups. The families say they have never been contacted by any insurgents...
...read the first chapter of Terrorist before the book hits stores, go to time.com/updike
With his 22nd novel, Terrorist (Knopf; 320 pages), Updike answers his own question. Terrorist is the startlingly contemporary story of Ahmad, a high school student in a crumbling New Jersey town whose zealous Islamic faith and disaffection with modern life make him a pawn in the larger, fitfully violent conflict between Muslim and Christian, East and West. They also make him a powerful voice for Updike's abiding, ongoing critique of American civilization, as well as a uniquely tragic individual in his own right...
...Updike remains one of America's great stylists--his prose is the literary equivalent of high-definition television--and one of its most pitiless observers. As Terrorist demonstrates, his gaze hasn't wavered, even though his feelings have never been more mixed...