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...Sauce,” Rengin and Herman create an excellent contrast between abusiveness and meekness. Although predictable, Rengin’s double betrayal makes for an entertaining spectacle as she sways drunkenly across the stage and alternately sputters expressions of love and despair...
...This may account for why the rhetoric of the Taliban leader took on apocalyptic tones last week that seemed to betray his despair about the fate of his movement and his own dim prospects for survival. From an undisclosed location, Omar broadcast messages predicting his death in battle and naming Mullah Baradar, a former governor in Herat who commanded Taliban troops in Kabul, his successor. Early in the week he gave an interview to the BBC's Pashtu news service in which he predicted "the destruction of America. If Allah's help is with us, this will happen within...
...answer is that we are entertaining both at once, hope and despair at either end of the table, we had better learn to do it gracefully. "We're living through an eclipse of normality, a twilight landscape," says Edward Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. "The sun isn't quite right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family...
...only with schools within driving distance in case there's another attack." According to TIME's poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that the events of Sept. 11 will define a generation the way the Kennedy assassination did. UCLA now offers courses on "Navigating Between Blithesome Optimism and Cultural Despair" and "Implications of World Crises for Student Stress and Academic Achievement," in which students will write a journal and interview one another. But on most campuses, rattled students have to fend for themselves. Mental-health services are mobbed; at Syracuse University there's now a 19-day wait...
...This may account for why the rhetoric of the Taliban leader took on apocalyptic tones last week that seemed to betray his despair about the fate of his movement and his own dim prospects for survival. From an undisclosed location, Omar broadcast messages predicting his death in battle and naming Mullah Baradar, a former governor in Herat who commanded Taliban troops in Kabul, his successor. Early in the week he gave an interview to the bbc's Pashtu news service in which he predicted "the destruction of America. If Allah's help is with us, this will happen within...