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...Police at first tried to describe Bishop as a troubled loner. Yet Favreau said Charles "never complained about his home life," and teachers cast him as a buoyant student who denounced bin Laden in an essay. Favreau notes, however, that Charles dropped out of sight for long periods of time during the last holiday break, telling friends he was working on a "project." He also hinted they should watch the news for something big, reportedly telling his grandmother the day of the crash not to let his enemies attend his funeral. "I gotta think that project was his suicide," says...
Cornel West is above such pettiness, though—he is shielded not only by his manifest brilliance, but by what an essay in The Cornel West Reader calls his “ego-deflating humility.” This humility is on prominent display at (where else?) cornelwest.com, which introduces the professor’s CD, Sketches of My Culture, with the announcement that “in all modesty, this project constitutes a watershed moment in musical history.” A lesser man, having produced such a watershed work, might have been tempted to caper and preen...
...metal detector for this oddball essay on the lure of the forbidden, the lucidity of dreams. Lots goes wrong here, so we'll just pick on the dialogue. Cruz's English is often unintelligible; Lee, who plays the hero's intellectual friend, can't pronounce the word intellectual; and Diaz is forced to utter the most off-putting line in recent movies (let's just say it includes the word swallowed). The poor dear plays a character so shrill and needy that it makes Diaz almost not fantastically attractive...
...Lance Morrow's commentary about Islam and the West, "Who's More Arrogant?" [ESSAY, Dec. 10]: If arrogance is pride in one's superiority, then, yes, we Americans are hated for our arrogance by those who shouted for joy on Sept. 11. We are also hated for our technological superiority, our cities and skyscrapers, our constitutionally protected rights and our unprecedented standard of living. But if it's right to take pride in these achievements, then Americans, especially opinion makers like Morrow, need more arrogance, not less. KEVIN OSBORNE New Hartford, Conn...
...certainly agree with Michael Elliott, that we must listen to the stories of Islam's poor and give a large measure of generosity to Afghanistan and other Muslim countries [ESSAY, Dec. 3]. But we must not let ourselves be lulled into thinking that aid alone will change feelings toward us in the Islamic world. It is not America's reaction to the atrocities of Sept. 11 that will inspire a generation of young Muslims to commit themselves to armed struggle against the West; it is the hateful preaching by the teachers of those young Muslims. We must bring...