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Today westerns are back, guns blazing. The immediate impetus is a series of unexpected hits: CBS's high-rated 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on Larry McMurtry's novel; the popular frontier series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; and a pair of Oscar-winning films, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. They have been more than enough to set off a modern Hollywood version of the Oklahoma land rush...
Clinton ascribed his dedication to publicservice to the Kennedy legacy. "[PresidentKennedy] inspired millions of us to take a verypersonal stake in our country's future and infreedom everywhere....He dared Americans to joinwith him on what he called the new frontier,"Clinton said...
...sitting in your "Myth of America" section, and the demure, totally glam English grad student asks you to analyze and describe the mythic aspects of an L.L. Bean ad. A first-year jumps up and starts to shout: "The frontier, Daniel Boone, Emerson, mythic contradictions, Poe as the anti-mother, Freud, Oedipus, Daniel Cooper..." He bites his tongue off and blood begins to spurt out of his mouth...
...indictment. At one point he describes the image that J.F.K.'s inner circle tried to project as one of "cool objectivity, pure information gathering, dispassionate analysis." He must have absorbed some of that style during his long immersion in the archives and artifacts of the New Frontier...
Abouhalima's training site was the frontier city of Peshawar in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, where the major mujahedin parties had their headquarters and where more than 50 Arab relief agencies and unofficial groups had offices. The mujahedin received an estimated $3.5 billion in financial support from the CIA as well, which bankrolled training for the Muslim warriors in the use of explosives and modern weapons. Abouhalima settled in one of the many transit houses known as the House of Friends, where young Arabs were often crammed four to a room...