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...immediately clear which organization was responsible for the attacks, which were the deadliest the city has seen since the Nazi blitz of 1940-1941, although a group calling itself “The Secret Organization of al Qaeda in Europe” posted a message on an extremist website taking credit for the attacks, calling the bombings “a response to the massacres carried out by Britain in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Banner headlines in Iraqi newspapers last Friday proclaimed WE DESTROYED KHARG ISLAND. The papers reported a "massive blitz" by Iraqi planes against the terminal, one of the world's largest, through which flow 90% of Iran's crude-oil exports of 1.6 million bbl. a day. If indeed Iraq had destroyed the terminal, it would have been a turning point in the five-year-old gulf war. By late last week, however, oil-industry experts concluded that although Iraqi jets had managed to penetrate the heavily defended southeastern, landward side of the complex known as "T terminal," the strike would...
Born in the U.S.A. has been a Top Ten album for over a year and, with 13 million copies sold worldwide, has become the all-time best seller in Columbia Records' history. Springsteen, 35, has been on a concert blitz since a year ago. By the time he takes a break this October, he will have played 62 cities around the world in 15 months. The shows have sold out everywhere; in Milan and Kyoto, the audiences sang whole songs with...
...news were to build its own Mount Rushmore, the first face carved would be that of Edward R. Murrow. The man who brought the Nazi blitz into American living rooms with his memorable radio reports ("This ... is London") went on to become the most admired newsman of television's first decade. With his brooding brow, sonorous voice and ever present cigarette, Murrow personified the highest standards of journalism for millions. His CBS documentaries on the McCarthy witch hunts and the plight of migrant farm workers are classics of impassioned TV reportage. A movie about this legendary figure would seem...
...Still, there is no other prime-time show so determinedly unhip. Where American Idol has Ryan Seacrest, Dancing has Hollywood Squares' Tom Bergeron. Where Idol's Simon Cowell snipes put-downs, judge Len Goodman has such quaint British diction you could imagine him reporting from London during the Blitz. The theatrics and costumes (former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre jived in a G.I. outfit) would embarrass an Ice Capades...