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...five years until militants hijacked an Indian Airlines plane and took it to Afghanistan. In exchange for 155 passengers, they won the release of Saeed, Azhar and one other terrorist jailed in India. Saeed slipped into Pakistan and kept a low profile but remained active in the militant underground...
...chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your kids not to take the drugs you did yourself. December's looked at once violent Weather Underground members who came out of hiding in the 1980s to lead middle-class lives...
...exiled the erstwhile Bolshevik Number 2 from the Soviet Union, and turned him into the epitome of all the horror that threatened the Soviet Motherland, the bogeyman that the people must rally around the Vozhd to oppose. Moscow show trials were built on alleged ties of the "criminal trotskiite underground" to their exiled principal. All the ills and failures of the Soviet society were explained by the plotting of "trotskiite wreckers." Even after Stalin's agent murdered Trotski with an ice-pick in Mexico in August 1940, his name was invoked to justify terror until Stalin's death in March...
...comix part of the book, "Cartoonists on Cartooning," includes contributions from a number of artists we hardly hear from anymore. Robert Crumb, for example, submits a simulacrum of himself as "Harold," an aging cartoonist with his mind more on prostate cancer than on making art. Justin Green, another underground original, makes a welcome appearance with his typically personal story that starts with a childhood correspondence course in cartooning and ends with accidentally drinking paint thinner. Other contributors include Chris Ware, Los Bros. Hernandez, Carol Lay, Dave Sim (with a refreshingly straight-forward appreciation of Alex Raymond), Jessica Abel and about...
...renovate the dilapidated Hasty Pudding Building (a project now expected to cost well over $10 million) and ruminated to the Faculty about converting the Inn at Harvard into academic space. And then there is the slow to happen Center for International and Government Studies with its controversial and expensive underground tunnel, where just the permit to dig the thing will cost...