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...rash of suicide bombings that swept across Iraq - often dozens or more a day: "The craziest thing about the suicide bombings were the heads - how the head of the bomber often remained intact after the explosion. It was the result of some weird law that only a physicist could explain: the force of the blast would detach the bomber's head and throw it up and away, too fast for the blast to destroy it. So there it would be, the head, sitting on a pile of bricks or underneath a telephone pole...
Victims of War The picture of the two wounded Afghani children that accompanied the article "Collateral Tragedies" literally took my breath away - like a kick to the chest [Sept. 15]. I wonder if those in favor of our military actions could look into these children's eyes and explain to them why America is right to do this to them and their families. All the arguments in the world can never justify the fear and pain reflected in those children's faces. Kelly Czermerys, HUNTER...
Each year I write an impassioned plea to a plethora of mailing lists exhorting Harvard undergraduates to consider cross-registration at MIT. I explain the simplicity and ease of cross-registration. I argue that the commute is trivial and that there are exciting courses in all manner of disciplines. But without fail, year after year, students decline to make the commitment, except for accounting...
...Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in the Islamic world. Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being needlessly alarmist about the "clash of civilizations" - a term he coined before Samuel Huntington's book. Lewis's latest book Islam: The Religion and the People, (Wharton School of Publishing) co-authored with...
...flabby, AARP exteriors and the hot forensic scientist babes who are inexplicably attracted to them! The problem is that “Righteous Kill” relies upon clichés instead of taking time to actually develop. The audience is deprived of smart, realistic dialogue that does not explain everything for them. Despite the considerable acting range of the movie’s leading Italians, both are wasted among a cast of underdeveloped and stale characters: the angry retiring cop, the angry retiring cop’s partner, two hotheaded rival cops, and the police chief who tries...