MARTIN
E. LEE: Over the years...contacts between Nazis and
Muslim nationalists developed into dangerous networks that have
been implicated in a number of bloody terrorist attacks in Europe
and the Middle East
JOEL
BROWER: Whatever conservatives planning for the last
war may think, women have become indispensable to the victorious
militaries of the future
JAMES
D. FERNANDEZ: Romanticism's twin brother was nationalism;
it taught us that the nation was the sole legitimate collective
subject, and that a nation's success is to be judged not on the
basis of such trivia as the rights and privileges and comforts it
provides to the citizens living within its borders, but rather on
the basis of its fidelity to its own essence
JUDITH
BECK: Osama bin Ladin and the other terrorists have
a longer timetable than Hitler, but like him, they've been keeping
watch on world reaction.
DIANA
POVIS: If I am ever in a face-to-face confrontation
with a terrorist, and need to kick him in the balls, I hope that
I am brave enough--and that he is short enough.
LISA
REARDON: The role of the media, Didion asserts, has
devolved to the point that they are largely complicit crewmembers
in the theater of political campaigns and changing administrations
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JUD
LAGHI: On a brisk November Tuesday, seven members of
the entertainment and popular-culture elite found themselves downtown
at Cooper Union for a symposium entitled 'Style and Culture After'
HARIETTE
SUROVELL: One almost wishes that the Mormon Angel
Moroni, the Italian angel, had descended upon the 2002 Salt Lake
City, UT Olympics
A.C.
KOCH "The Muckraker": imagine picking up the Marthasville
(MO) Courier, fresh off the presses on a Wednesday afternoon in
March, 1998, and finding this item on page 6 between the wedding
announcements and classified ads: 'American Tube Using Untested
Technology to Transport People Around the Globe'
MIKE
GOLDEN "That's Just Show Business": I was
watching pro football with Abbie. Patriots-Jets, exhibition
ERIC
BOSSE "The Nirvana Project": Our commitment to
the Nine Devotions of Apathy has gotten us this far, my spiritual
friends
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