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...gravest terrorism threat may come less from Mindanao than from Manila, thought to be a prime hideaway for undetected al-Qaeda cells scattered throughout Southeast Asia. For several months Manila provided houseroom for Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Only last week Philippine police arrested three men suspected of plotting with an al-Qaeda ring recently broken up in Singapore. Sleepers like these, with a taste for anti-American action, trained and financed by al-Qaeda, could be part of a regional terrorism fraternity operating under the banner of Jemaah Islamia, which seeks...
...friend, Rolland Ho '97, came 10 minuteslater and walked Mossman back to his Lowell Houseroom, where he attended to her injuries. Ho saidthey were "mainly superficial scratches...
...pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing Dan can cozen a long-ignored son (Orson Bean) into giving him houseroom...
People are beasts, in Andorra, for committing or permitting atrocities like the Nazi massacre of the Jews and then disowning responsibility for it. They are beasts, in The Firebugs, for giving arsonists the houseroom and the matches to set the world ablaze while they dunderheadedly pursue business as usual. The paradoxical difficulty is that Frisch hopes to arouse the conscience of the beast after demonstrating at tedious length that the beast has no conscience...
...city of New York has its share of great museums, but there is one rich area of art that none of them give adequate houseroom to. This is American folk art-the vast treasury of weather vanes and limners' portraits, of whittled toys and cigar-store Indians that were also objects of genuine beauty. To those with affection for the field, this shortcoming has been especially galling, for there was a time when the city had two of the best collections in the country. Unhappily for New Yorkers, the pioneering collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ended up in Williamsburg...