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President Clinton played right into the hands of every terrorist group with a grievance against the U.S. when he ordered stepped-up security measures at American airports. The purpose of terrorist acts--real, threatened or imagined--is to instill fear in the general population and alter the behavior of John Q. Public. The President's action makes that goal of terrorist strategy official policy. Each time we allow our lives to be controlled or manipulated in search of "guaranteed" safety, we give up a bit of what it means to be free. Our government's approach to terrorism...
...Ellington. But most people are wrong. The composer, or in many cases the co-composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
...warned Joe that those unequivocal statements were going to cause him trouble. It's never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published an item by senior editor Jonathan Alter guessing at Anonymous' identity, thus dragging the magazine into Klein's credibility gap. "In retrospect, I shouldn't have published the item. Our interests diverged at that point." Parker has apologized to Alter, who has not yet heard from Klein. "What happened can rub off on other Newsweek columnists who tell...
...Lewis' salient attributes as a performer is that he exudes a palpable sense of self-satisfaction coupled with an unslakeable, almost scary thirst for adoration--not to mention, as his career progressed and then faltered, an underlying rage. In fact, Levy argues convincingly that Lewis' Nutty Professor alter ego, the suave, egotistical and nasty crooner Buddy Love, is more a knowing self-portrait than, as is generally assumed, a satiric jab at Martin...
...Murphy, happily, is something Lewis never was: a comic actor of astonishing range. He is able to invest his Professor Klump with an endearing dignity, give his lounge lizard alter ego, Buddy Love, an alligator's bite and then go on from there to play Klump's grandma. Also his mother, father and brother...