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...detained a Pakistani business analyst, who was trying to fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to New York City but didn't have his papers with him. After the traveler's lawyer faxed a copy of his business visa, an INS agent let him board the plane with one final plea: "I hope you are not a terrorist. Don't embarrass...
...mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded ground zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place for the socks we have to give...
...mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded Ground Zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place for the socks we have to give...
...arms: Here comes Gob. The Canadian revival punk quartet’s most recent venture, The World According to Gob, is, without question, a far cry from the irreverent disharmony of the Stooges or the Sex Pistols. It seems as though Gob took the Descendents’ ironic 1983 plea...
...with images. It?s hard to hear The Doors mournful song ?The End? and not think about the explosive, nightmarish opening images of Francis Ford Coppola's ?Apocalypse Now?. That war, and its aftermath, helped spawn a number of songs, from Marvin Gaye?s ?What?s Going On,? a plea for peace and understanding, to Bruce Springsteen?s ?Born in the U.S.A.,? which explored the pain and confusion of a returning war veteran: ?Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow...