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...prolific rumors that H Bomb is desperate for decent copy have a grain of truth—thousands of student dollars can’t buy quality prose—the final product may end up confusing eager readers for yet another Lampoon parody...
...important than its “content.” They’re old now. I’ve never understood how lyrics could single-handedly overshadow boring music. The value placed on music’s literary aspect seems to ignore the fact that music, as the Bomb Squad put it, is nothing more than organized noise. If music is powerful because it’s immediate, because it’s inherently abstract, then why not focus on the possibilities of sound itself...
However, the development of technology, like the atomic bomb, used in this age-old combat have new and serious environmental consequences...
With a dramatic, deadly raid in a Madrid suburb and sweeps in several countries, antiterrorism efforts in Europe intensified last week. Three suspects in last month's Madrid train bombings blew themselves up as Spanish police engaged them in a standoff Saturday night that also killed an agent. Officials had earlier in the week identified a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, as "leader and coordinator" of the train blasts that killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked...
...suspects picked up last week were Islamists. Police in Turkey and four other European countries arrested 53 suspected members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, a Marxist group that has admitted to launching two suicide-bomb attacks in Istanbul since September 2001. Experts think al-Qaeda's successes may have inspired the group to try to launch more spectacular attacks...