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...than the version taught at the Binori town mosque and seminary, which educates more than 9,000 students at branches across the city. There, in the feverish days after Sept. 11, sermons reviled President George W. Bush as a decadent Pharaoh and lauded Osama bin Laden as an Islamist hero. The school counted top Taliban commanders as alumni and served for years as a favorite rendezvous for al-Qaeda men passing through Pakistan en route to Afghanistan. In response to 9/11, the U.S. denounced these schools, or madrasahs, as terrorist-training academies and called for strict controls on their incendiary...
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...that Bush ran against? The President is not merely reversing a decade of sane fiscal management begun by his father and continued by the very odd couple of Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, but is racking up the next generation's debt in a way unmatched even by his hero Ronald Reagan. After all, Reagan also oversaw tax cuts and a big increase in military spending during a recession, and he bequeathed huge deficits as a result. But at least he restrained domestic spending at the same time. As a Cato Institute report shows, the Gipper's total federal spending...
...hero of Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude (Doubleday; 511 pages) is smart, scrawny, sensitive Dylan Ebdus. He's 5 when his parents move to a hard-luck black and Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mom is a hippie, his dad a painter who spends his days on an incomprehensible, unfinishable masterpiece. Soon Mingus Rude moves in down the block. His father Barrett is a once famous soul singer--he fronted the fictional Subtle Distinctions--now in drastic, drug-addicted decline (Barrett owes more than a little to Marvin Gaye). The boys become friends--Mingus the leader, Dylan...
Garrison Keillor spoke for many of us rational individuals in his description of Jesse Ventura's governorship of Minnesota [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. Keillor referred to Arnold Schwarzenegger's candidacy for California Governor and noted that Minnesotans "invented the action-hero Governor." Education and experience are the substantive ingredients necessary for any successful career, including one in politics. Star power and money should not be the determining factors. Are you listening, California? ALEXANDER G. KAPOCIUS Orland Park...