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...WITCHEL: PW dumps on "Me Times Three" by Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
...Ahmed, the al-Qaeda paymaster, vanished in early September. Three alleged 9/11 accomplices based in Germany are still at large. And undetectable "sleepers" were implanted across the globe some time ago. Without a sanctuary like Afghanistan, the terrorists' capacity to conceive and carry out grand attacks in a centralized manner has clearly been undermined. Trouble is, not all the terrorism inspired by al-Qaeda needs to be handed down from the top. "They can be self-initiating at the grassroots level," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Each individual member considers himself to have...
...short-sighted for so many Harvard students to simply assume that athletes should be able to achieve at the same absurdly high academic level as those with few comparable demands on their time; athletic participation inherently depresses academic performance in a manner that few other pursuits...
...situations. "They were an average American family," and John "was a sweet, quiet boy." It happens to be true. John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall. He spent his first 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., in the happy, unremarkable manner that most parents wish for their children. "We were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took the bus to his job at the Department of Justice. Marilyn Walker...
Also delivering a dead-on performance is Samuel H. Perwin ’04, who is particularly well-cast as the cad Fairfax. Perwin, whose character steals Elsie from Point, has a terrific manner of looking over the heads of those who speak to him, convincingly playing up the haughty side of this dashing young man gone wrong...