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...laughed off such sanctimonious pronouncements about the evil of gambling...
...save on legal fees!" The foregoing is completely made up, but this isn't: on Sept. 10, Marvel Comics will publish a comic book featuring a resurrected mutant Diana, Princess of Wales. According to Marvel, the comic is a media-savvy satire on celebrity in which Diana must escape evil Eurotrash. The title? Di Another Day. No, that's not made up either...
...noted that some conservative Christian parents think the Harry Potter books "promote witchcraft and Satanism." I don't understand why people would discourage reading this remarkable series, even if their religion holds that magic is bad. Rowling writes about goodness triumphing over evil, and although many of the characters are clearly either good or bad, there are also witches and wizards in the gray area in between. Even if the Potter books, as Yale professor Harold Bloom predicted, end up "in the dustbins everywhere," readers worldwide, young and old, will remember them as fascinating, magical stories of bravery and love...
...hard-liners in the U.S. are increasingly concerned that a desperate North Korea is spreading more than conventional arms?it is bartering its atomic weapons technology to Iran, creating an unholy, and far more dangerous, alliance between the two other members of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil." "If I send a shipment of missile components on a plane, it doesn't mean I can't send with it a nuclear scientist with a hard drive," says Joseph Bermudez, a widely respected senior analyst at Jane's Information Group. Asserts Yossef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congressional Task...
...deal was concluded. But after the trip, top leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were told that Iran would have its own nuclear weapons "soon," says Ledeen. Saddam Hussein's Iraq had no nukes. That regime is gone, but how much more frightening will Bush's "axis of evil" be a year from...