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Pieties centered on individual rights have yielded to pieties of collective purpose and national security. In the Old Paradigm, flag waving was disapproved of and patriotism an embarrassment. You stood with everyone else, but never quite sang the anthem aloud. In the New Paradigm, the entire nation is festooned and flapping red, white and blue...
...60th anniversary of Curious George fell at a busy time for the country's No. 1 George. But other noted Georges gathered at the Children's Museum in Manhattan to read aloud. Politico GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, writer GEORGE PLIMPTON, former TV-anchor PHYLLIS GEORGE and comic GEORGE WALLACE were there, although Carlin, Foreman and Boy weren't. Politico George is used to spending time with monkeys. "People send me Curious George paraphernalia," he said. Plimpton found relief from turbulent times: "Children's literature," he said, "is not much stricken by outside things." This year, however, money to be raised from...
...people from the New York comixcenti gathered last Thursday in a cavernous performance-space-cum-bar near the East River for the second in a series of shows known as "Comics Decode." Taking another step into the realm of comix as performance, "Comics Decode" has comicbook authors read aloud a selection of their work and then take questions about it. Through its early steps "Comics Decode" exposes the challenges of bridging private and public art forms...
...Qaeda trying to panic U.S. journalists into doing the terrorists' work for them, spreading the fear that has now hit them where they work? Addressing the possibility that the anthrax scare is a follow-up to the attack on the World Trade Center, Vice President Dick Cheney wondered aloud, "Are they related? We don't know. We don't have enough evidence to be able to pin down that kind of connection. But...we have to be suspicious...
...Back in Jalalabad, the Taliban took us to the Sihat-i-Aama Hospital where 17 injured Khrum villagers were receiving treatment. Among them was three-year old Rahmat Bibi, her legs broken and her head bandaged, crying aloud while asking to be taken to her dead mother, one of the victims of the air strikes. One-year-old Jan Bibi and her three-year-old brother Gul Khan were lying in the same hospital bed, unaware that they had been orphaned. Doctors said they were short of drugs, which wasn't unusual in a country that has been...