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...probes that world view: "The fear that these changes will eradicate their language. Their religion. Their way of life. Westernization as the major lifestyle. Capitalism as the major economic system. English as the major language. Tourism as a major industry. These things scare them. This is not just a madman's mind...
...President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups with global reach." By defining the threat as those groups with global reach, he would seem to eliminate, say, the West Bank bomber who straps some dynamite to his chest and blows himself up outside an Israeli disco. Such a madman can reach Tel Aviv but not Thailand or Toledo...
...President gave himself was the phrase "terrorist groups with global reach." By defining the threat as those groups with global reach, he would seem to eliminate, say, the West Bank bomber who straps some dynamite to his chest and blows himself up outside an Israeli disco. Such a madman can reach Tel Aviv but not Thailand or Toledo...
...ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK: Simon Winchester goes for arcane subjects. His bestselling "The Professor and the Madman" told the story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, "The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology" (HarperCollins; August 14) tells the story of William Smith, "whose lifelong obsession with fossils and the strata of rock formations proved to be the foundation for the science of geology." Kirkus adored it, giving it a starred review. "A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science." HarperCollins is really behind...
...smells like victory") and a group of Sirens (the Playboy Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length. Now he's enough of an artist to lay out the full story...