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...their investigations of car bombings have discovered that some of the vehicles were rigged to be detonated by remote control, indicating that the drivers may not have been aware that they were about to be blown up. "In a majority of cases, you find hands chained to the steering column, so these were not volunteers," says al-Juboori, the Interior Ministry spokesman. But U.S. investigators who have looked into scores of cases believe coercion is rare. Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, head of the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell, which has investigated more than 60 bombings in the past five months...
...have said that the good lies in doing it, in using the mind to grasp everything the world can throw at it, baseballs to missiles, because that is how the mind protects the body, protects itself. Understanding is protection. More: understanding is forewarning. More: understanding is life. The individual column does not count, because a column is not supposed to exist alone. A columnist looks to erect a whole assembly of columns, each single effort standing patiently at attention after it is created, until eventually a population emerges, a civilization emerges. The civilization is both an accumulation of the columnist...
After 17 years of determining "all the news that's fit to print," Rosenthal will begin writing a twice-weekly column, ending an era in which the Times reached new heights of success and prestige. Under Rosenthal, the Times won nearly two dozen Pulitzer Prizes, introduced new sections and a more contemporary look, and reversed its financial fortunes to become one of the nation's most lucrative newspapers. "The Times changed more under Abe than under any editor in its history," says Benjamin Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post. "It burst full-blown into the 20th century...
...selling his work to Times Books. Others charge that as Rosenthal has grown more conservative politically, he has become skittish about criticizing Establishment figures in print. When Sydney Schanberg, a 1976 Pulitzer prizewinner for his Cambodia coverage, began frequently attacking the city's power brokers in his local column, it was abruptly dropped...
Rosenthal says the timing of the announcement was his idea: "I was itching to get on to writing the column." Some Times veterans wonder how well Frankel, who has been removed from day-to-day news coverage for 13 years, will handle the rough-and-tumble of the Times's third-floor newsroom. Yet his journalistic credentials are impeccable (he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news...