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...unable to break his obsession with covering Third World suffering. He is a witness and death is his subject, and as time passes he seems to long for his favorite m?tier. A concerned editor sends him on the reporting junket of a lifetime, traveling to mythical lairs?Babylon, Tibet, Shangri-la and more?to study man's dreams instead of man's misery. Man has forever sought power, immortality and peace, the journalist discovers, and they will forever elude his grasp...
...never seemed to hurt that Lindsey's predictions passed their "sell by" date: during the Gulf War, sales of his book jumped 83%, as people feared Saddam Hussein was rebuilding Babylon and dragging the world to its last battle. Nowadays Lindsey sees his early warnings being vindicated almost daily. "The Muslim terrorists are going to strike the U.S. again and strike us hard so that we cease to be one of the world's great powers," he says. "It's not far off." When he wrote his best seller, he says, not many people took prophecy seriously. "I was called...
...Jewish Bible's books of Isaiah and Ezekiel. The books were edited in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., and secular scholars find an intimate connection between their content and the horrors Jews faced at the time. In 586 B.C., after a brutal siege, the kingdom of Babylon conquered Israel and forced its elite into exile. The prophets defiantly proclaimed the opposite: the establishment over all nations of a Jewish kingdom under a divinely anointed Messiah, set at the end of days. It was so resonant to a nearly annihilated people that it became a central part of their tradition...
...This is the Fozzie Bear verdict all over again.") But Wednesday, like its title, isn't clever enough to earn its self-satisfied tone. (We're spoofing TV! On TV!) Starring a wooden Ivan Sergei as an exec at the struggling IBS network, it is a rehash of Hollywood Babylon cliches. One "provocative" plot--should IBS air an execution for ratings?--is as old as TV itself. Producer Peter Tolan, who set the TV-satire standard with The Larry Sanders Show, should know better. Never send a man to do a bunny...
Like many other TV freaks, Necratog, 21, also downloads favorite programs and burns them onto CDs. His archives include 400 CDs that hold more than a thousand Buffy, Babylon 5, South Park and Star Trek shows. But Buffy is his favorite. "I'll watch the same episode three or four times in a row," he says. "I've watched some over 20 times altogether...