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...with machine-gun fire and ritualistic dagger slashes across their necks. "I am al-Qaeda, I am Muslim and I am good," one of the terrorists told two of the compound's Indian employees, one Hindu, the other Christian. "You do not pray. You are bad." The day of mayhem left the reputation of the Saudi security forces in tatters. By the time Saudi commandos dropped onto the rooftop of the Oasis, the terrorists had fled; the alleged leader was later wounded and captured but the other three members vanished. A source close to Saudi intelligence officials told TIME that...
Unlike last year, in which the lightweight scene devolved into mayhem when a series of No. 1 crews were upset within days of their ascension to the throne, the Crimson-Midshipmen matchup featured the two pre-eminent national crews and correctly foreshadowed several important meetings...
...with the possibility of a smaller-scale landing at an earlier date if the Soviets were on the point of collapse. That seemed perilously likely. By mid-1942, more than 150 German divisions had overrun the Soviet Union to a depth of 1,000 miles, wreaking mayhem on a scale that John F. Kennedy later compared to "the devastation of this country east of Chicago." The fate of Britain and the U.S. alike hung on the Soviets' survival. "The prize we seek," said Dwight Eisenhower in 1942, "is to keep 8 million Russians...
Office Space notwithstanding, the life of the white-collar wage slave is chronically underchronicled, and one wonders, with all the suburban epics out there, why aren't there more office novels? Granted, with all the undead mayhem, there are moments when Hynes seems to lose track of what exactly he's trying to say about office life. Should we fear the zombified Dilberts that threaten Paul's sanity or pity them? After all, what office drone hasn't felt his or her humanity being leached away by carpeted walls and racks of low-hanging fluorescent lamps at $5.25 an hour...
SATURDAY: Black Friday (1940) and The Clack Cat. (1941) Classic Horror's two features explore brain transplants with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and comic mayhem with Basil Rathbone and Broderick Crawford. CH.5...