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...religious extremes within Islam, that means we see more suicide bombers: if God's judgment is just around the corner, martyrdom has a special appeal. The more they cast their cause as a fight against the Great Satan, the more they reinforce the belief in some U.S. quarters that the war on terror is not one that can ever end with a treaty or communique, only total victory or defeat. Extremists on each side look to contemporary events as validation of their sacred texts; each uses the others to define its view of the divine scheme...
...Clancy's The Sum of All Fears wouldn't fill a chapter in the Left Behind series. (Large chunks of several U.S. cities have been bombed to smithereens by page 110 of Book 3.) Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard, says part of the appeal of Left Behind lies in the "lip-licking anticipation of all the blood." But many nonbelievers come to Christ in the course of the books, and this holy "soul harvest" lends the series a buoyant optimism that many critics have ignored...
...states that formerly allowed them to be executed are bracing for a flood of petitions claiming mental incapacity. In Texas the Dallas Morning News' review of the state's 455 death-row inmates identified at least 20 who raised mental deficiency as an issue at trial or on appeal. North Carolina adopted a ban on executing the retarded last August. Ken Rose, the executive director of the North Carolina Center for Death Penalty Litigation, says that of the 213 condemned killers in his state, "about 50" have petitioned for retrial on that basis...
...goddess Christina Aguilera, "The same kids who two years ago were buying 'N Sync and Christina Aguilera records are responding to styles of music that are more song- and artist-driven. They're two years older, and the realism of singers singing their own songs has a lot of appeal. They haven't heard that music sung by their peers before...
...part of the appeal of the Authentics is that they write their own songs, will they be able to score hits as big as the anthems of Britney, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, whose killer hooks were penned by studio wizards like the Swede Max Martin? So far, the labels have taken the middle path between ordering the artists to submit to the will of a 50-year-old songwriting coach and locking them up to write melodies in solitary confinement. "I sit down with a guitar player usually, and I come up with melody and lyrics," explains Lavigne...