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...play’s main plot revolves around Tzara and Carr, who are forced to fake their names and hide their real artistic and political views in order to win the respective loves of the Joyce-admiring Cecily and the Leninist librarian Gwendolen. The themes are the role of art and politics: should one accept a Wildean view of art for art’s sake, a Socialist one of art as political tool, or a Dadaist conception of art as needing to destroy itself? Is war a matter of defending the innocent or of seizing oil wells...
...system had failed; about what had been fixed since, what had not been and what could not be. The 9/11 commission hearings last week finally picked the lock on the most unsettling parts of the 9/11 attacks: how close the government had come to sensing the plot, how far it remained from being able to stop it and how little Americans knew of either tale until now. "There are a lot of problems leading up to 9/11," panel chairman Thomas Kean told TIME, "and the suspicion is that some of them aren't yet fixed. We can't afford that...
...Manila, Philippine police bust a cadre of al-Qaeda members plotting to blow up 12 airplanes, a scheme they called Operation Bojinka (Serbo-Croatian for explosion). On a test run, the co-conspirators had planted a small bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight that killed one passenger. Officials finger Ramzi Yousef--the wanted leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane...
...Hazmi attended. They would have also discovered a notebook containing the name Ahad Sabet, the alias of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who wired money to Moussaoui and was a roommate of 9/11 pilots Atta, al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. That might have enabled agents to speculate about a plot involving aircraft and to bar the three pilots from all flights...
...where, beyond the reforms already undertaken, should we focus our efforts to make improvements? Rather than despair at the size of the challenge before us, it's important for us to remember that the impact of the 9/11 plot was, to a huge extent, lessened (and thereby, in a sense, prevented) by the actions of the brave passengers on board United Flight 93 who, by confronting their hijackers, quite likely averted an attack on the Capitol or the White House. They did not let themselves be deterred by the difficulty--the near impossibility--of the task. In the same...