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Despite the blaze of controversy that invariably follows him, Douthat prefers to take a philosophical, somewhat detached viewpoint. “I regard myself as a conservative in the aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he wrote a novella about a student who was “allergic to technology—he ended up having to type his essays on a manual typewriter, and fell into this collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses...
...last two armed Taliban prisoners at Mazar-i-Sharif went out in a blaze of tank shells Tuesday, ending a bloody three-day rebellion that claimed hundreds of lives. At least one was an American; the CIA confirmed Wednesday a report by TIME's Alex Perry that Johnny "Mike" Spann, one of the agency's operatives, was killed early on in the fighting...
SWITZERLAND Inferno Under The Mountain Two trucks crashed head on, starting a fire in the Gotthard Tunnel that killed at least 11 people. Thick black smoke billowed out of the 16-km tunnel as the blaze, fueled by a load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three...
FIDDLE FOLK The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, vital forces in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk-music scene, blaze a trail for Irish music in America and inspire a number of other singers, including Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand...
...planes were loaded with fuel for transcontinental flights, and that jet fuel ignited a hellish blaze that sent temperatures at the point of impact soaring to an estimated 2000 degrees F. Within an hour, the intense heat caused the seemingly invincible steel beams of the towers to melt like cotton candy. At 10 a.m. EST, the southern tower of the World Trade Center was enveloped in smoke after a second, gigantic explosion, and part of that tower collapsed and was destroyed. About twenty minutes later, the northern tower imploded. At 5 p.m. EST, weakened by the impact and heat...