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...Sept. 11 attacks were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism" committed by the U.S.--for instance, in Vietnam, Central America and Iraq. That led university president Larry Faulkner to write the newspaper a letter defending Jensen's right to his views but calling him "a fountain of undiluted foolishness on issues of public policy." At the University of North Carolina, faculty members who sponsored an antiwar forum full of bitter evaluations of U.S. policy were bombarded by threatening e-mails after students published an account of the meeting at frontpagemag.com an online publication edited by David Horowitz...
...really argue? Cusack’s on quite a roll right now, deftly walking the leading-man middle ground like a cute date balancing on the side of a fountain. He can do savvy without resorting to “I’m-Slick” posturing (e.g., Pierce Brosnan, whose tie-adjusting characterizations all suffer from acute Bond Envy), and he can do sensitive, but without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks...
...Washington Square Park, adjacent to New York University, the emptied water fountain sprouted thousands of candles and American flags, and hundreds have congregated for the nightly vigils held near the towering memorial arch...
...here I sit on my sunny terrace. There's a soda-water fountain and the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees, just like in the song. I sit in my pajamas and work the Times crossword and sip peppermint tea and, it being almost Labor Day, I sit and think about work. And then I write a limerick. Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing...
...Pavarotti drank the Trevi fountain b) Mount Etna erupted c) Roberto Benigni won't let go of the Tower of Pisa d) Coliseum ticket takers can't bear to hear "Strength and honor!" anymore...