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Hardly a night passes when I don't stare down a chocolate chip cookie, until, in a flash, I break. Before I know it, I scarf down the entire thing. When done, I forget about it and get on with my life...
...That first poem in the Boston Review, “[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. and dogs do love trash]” has the triplet rhyming that you often find in rap. I must say that Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash were as important to me as Gertrude Stein and John Keats. I don’t think that’s true of every poet...
Unfortunately, the sorry trend of commercial exploitation of Sept. 11 does not end with the car manufacturers. AT&T now runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide” fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone...
...frightening lessons America has learned since Sept. 11, one of the scariest must be how absurdly easy it was for the bad guys to get into the country and stay. The hijackers didn't slink across the border at midnight or flash expertly forged passports; 13 of the 19 entered this country legally, on tourist, business or student visas. More than 7 million foreigners enter the U.S. on visas each year, and close to 3 million of them overstay their visas, just as three of the terrorists did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, the federal agency charged with screening those...
...First he must weather the gathering crisis that could flash into ungovernable riots at any provocation. Last week he agreed to let U.S. forces use two Pakistani air bases, while assuring his countrymen they would be used only for logistics, not combat. Although Washington forewarned him, the President will take heat from all sides now that the U.S. has issued a freeze order on the assets of the Rabita Trust, a three-decade-old Pakistan charity reportedly enjoying support from top officials, including Musharraf. The U.S. said Rabita's secretary-general was a founder of bin Laden's al-Qaeda...