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...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...
...Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five o’clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary passes...
This is perhaps an overly glowing view of the Yard that gains some magic in the dim, generous light of our memory. But if we stretch “magical” a bit to mean “exotic and different,” aren’t there innumerable pockets of magic tucked into Harvard’s social fabric? Harvard’s large size, so often used to denigrate it, in fact provides a virtually infinite number of niche groups. For instance, there’s a group that goes to the IHOP on Soldier?...
...shadow of fear" is no longer merely a specter but a jolt of what reality is now. Terrorists who live in the shadows need to be brought out into the light and their identity made known to the world. Only when they have been smoked out of the dim world of religious fanaticism will our shadow of fear disappear. NICK GIANNIAS Montreal...
...cast is the one in which all the patients, in an act of defiance against the control-freak Nurse Ratched, gather around an imaginary television set and shout out commentary on an imaginary World Series game. The scene is impressive enough to receive an ovation when the lights dim...