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...world in which tiny causes can have huge consequences feels scary and unreliable. Therefore a grand disaster like Sept. 11 needs a grand conspiracy behind it. "We tend to associate major events--a President or princess dying--with major causes," says Patrick Leman, a lecturer in psychology at Royal Holloway University of London, who has conducted studies on conspiracy belief. "If we think big events like a President being assassinated can happen at the hands of a minor individual, that points to the unpredictability and randomness of life and unsettles us." In that sense, the idea that there...
...Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO). Holly Hunter, mystically mute in the movie The Piano, chattered compulsively as Wanda Holloway, the homemaker accused of plotting to eliminate her daughter's cheerleading competition. Her hilarious, high-strung performance was just part of the fun of this delicious send-up of TV's ripped- from-the-headlines docudramas. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile) brought his deadpan wit to a marvelous script by Jane Anderson, and Lucy Simon contributed an infectious, country-flavored score...
...disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30,000 soldiers, up to $100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor A.J. Holloway. The overstatement is forgivable, for at some point suffering becomes immeasurable, reduced to a hopeless search for a place to sleep, or a bottle of water or a body to bury...
...been in decline. Congress was ornery about the president's stalled legislative agenda. And cable TV was consumed with the disappearance of a beautiful girl far from home. Such was the situation on September 10, 2001 and the same could be said of Tuesday this week. Substitute Natalee Holloway, the missing American girl in Aruba, for Chandra Levy, the murdered congressional aide, and the parallels are kind of eerie...
ARRESTED. SATISH and DEEPAK KALPOE, 18 and 21, brothers previously detained and released in the May disappearance of Alabama tourist Natalee Holloway, 18, in Aruba; along with unidentified others, as a result of "new facts and circumstances," according to prosecutors; in Oranjestad, Aruba...