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...aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, public attention has turned once again to the cryptic prognosticatory quatrains of the sixteenth-century mystic Nostradamus. An e-mail that landed in many in boxes in the weeks after the attack quotes what it calls a prediction of the French astrologer’s: “In the City of God there will be a great thunder, / Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, / The third big war will begin when the big city is burning...
...those for whom it is new. Among families who always said the Pledge of Allegiance before high school football games and didn't have to go out and buy a flag, not much has changed. But for the eternal skeptics, whose views were defined by Vietnam and its aftermath, who viewed the Gulf War as being more about oil than justice, the new patriotism represents a kind of homecoming. The same is true for many whose lives until now were defined largely by their differences. "I was very skeptical of the new unity back when people first started waving flags...
...puzzle over the possible links. In book two, for instance, the tale of Para Bhatt executing a near-perfect air strike to demolish Saudi Arabian tanks positioned in the Kharan area on the Pakistan-Iran border is intertwined with stories of Mahadev and young Paresh Bhatt capturing the aftermath of the 1971 Pakistan-Indian war on film...
...Harvard, either in Summers’ office or at the IOP, has seen the text of Clinton’s speech—although the topics will likely be public service, globalization, and the aftermath of Sept...
...speech sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP), Clinton will address a crowd of approximately 5,000 on topics ranging from globalization to the aftermath of Sept. 11 at the Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center. Shuttles, labeled “Clinton event” or “Gordon Track Center,” will run every 10 minutes from the Square, stop at the IOP, and head to the speech...