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There's also a kind of vicious innocence at work. The evildoers in the video seem to ask themselves, Who would have thunk??!! They are like nasty children who set a fire in the basement of the school...and cannot believe their luck when they succeed in burning the entire building down. Allahu akbar! The jihadniks burble about it in a wide-eyed way. To the evil imagination, this great, unlooked-for destruction is a miracle--all the more astonishing because it seems to accomplish, in this violent and profane world, a transformation of the same amazing order as that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awfully Ordinary | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...hours later, Spann became the first American casualty in Afghanistan, when dozens of surrendered Taliban soldiers overwhelmed their guards and staged a revolt. During the uprising, John Walker escaped, delaying the world's discovery of an American Taliban, but only temporarily. After a week spent starving in a basement deep below the prison, Walker and 85 comrades were flushed out when their dungeon was flooded with ice-cold water. Spann was gone, but his questions for John Walker remained: Who brought you here? How did you get here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Inside the Starr Book Shop, stairs lead down to the basement, which housed most of the stores books before Starr closed that section of his store in January...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Starr Fades Into History | 12/12/2001 | See Source »

...Crescenzi, the owner of the quirky store in the basement of 8 Eliot St.—adjacent to Charlie’s Kitchen—will not be laughing any more after the store permanently closes on Dec. 24, after 12 years in the toy business...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Funny Farm To Close Doors | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

Crescenzi says that customers have not just found unique toys in her bright blue- and yellow-painted basement store—two customers who met at the wind-up counter got married soon after...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Funny Farm To Close Doors | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

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