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...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for incoming freshmen to read a book about the Koran [NATION, Aug. 19], I would note that every religion, past, present and future, is a fit subject for academic study anywhere. Those who are suspicious of the idea probably have a dripping ax in their closet. ALLEN N. WOLLSCHEIDT Chandler, Ariz...
...reason may have come last February. The airlines and the TSA had claimed reinforced doors would keep out hijackers. Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane. The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop...
...Holly, B.B. King and Bo Diddley, The Beatles and the Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, ad infinitum ad gloriam, closed that case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior on the road to his annoyance at being given "some pretty...
...long ago, Jack Benjamin Grubman was on top of the world. The Salomon Smith Barney telecommunications analyst was pulling down $20 million a year, and every big investor knew Grubman was the "ax," the one man who could make or break any stock in his industry with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Today Grubman is in the gutter. WorldCom was one of his favorite stocks. Investors are livid, and regulators are looking into whether he violated professional ethics by touting telecom stocks for the investment-banking fees they would earn for his firm...
Strengths: Character, courage, a frightening proficiency with the ax...