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...most puzzling anthrax deaths. Their new theory is that Ottillie Lundgren, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman, and 61-year-old Kathy Nguyen of the Bronx may have received pieces of mail that were cross-contaminated by anthrax-laden letters bound for the offices of Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy...
...Patrick Quinn, professor of English Literature at the University of Northampton, believes that Sept. 11 will turn out to be part of a continuum stretching back to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. "If you think of World War I, World War II, Vietnam and now this, historically they are part of the same problem. The world we live in is chaos. All the art since 1914, starting with futurism and then working its way through modernism and post-modernism, is all a matter of wanting to have some control over the world we live...
...alone. Whenever U.S. filmmakers need to cast the bad guy in a blockbuster, they tend to seek out someone with an English accent, whether it's Patrick Stewart in Conspiracy Theory (where he menaced Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson) or Jeremy Irons, Rickman's successor in Die Hard with a Vengeance. No more. Now the Brits, thanks to Tony Blair's early and articulate support for the war against terrorism, have reached unprecedented levels of popularity among Americans, leaving filmmakers scrambling to find another country whose citizens' very accent can make an audience squirm. (The French...
...many ways, the horrific scale of Sept. 11 challenged our ability to put into words what happened. Language failed us that day, says Patrick Quinn, a professor at the University of Northampton: "When they talked to the firemen and witnesses, they had a vocabulary of 30 words. They would say it was 'terrible' and 'shocking' and then there would be these long pauses and then they would come back and say the same thing again...
...administration has desired. Indeed, the legislative branch has been almost too willing to relinquish its powers to the executive in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. So alarming has the breathtaking concentration of power in the executive branch been that the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), recently sent Ashcroft a letter asking him to appear before the committee to explain why the regulations were imposed without even an attempt to secure Congressional approval...