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...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...
DOWN AND OUT AT THE FRONT "This is the sort of place where epidemics are hatched," writes Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge in his diary of the past six weeks in Northern Alliance-held Afghanistan, and he's not kidding. The style is Hunter Thompson-with-dysentery as Quinn-Judge comments on the poor sanitation, the bribe-hungry border guards and the recalcitrant military commanders. Quinn-Judge kept a daily dairy of his experiences reporting from the front lines of the war, a place where patience was of the essence because waiting is the main job of war correspondents...
...British firm Securicor. To restore confidence after its rash of bad press, Securicor last week replaced Argenbright chief executive Frank Argenbright Jr. and said it was raising the hourly wages of its screeners. Company president Bill Barbour did not return TIME's phone calls for comment. Kenneth Quinn, a lawyer hired by a consortium of private security agencies, says much of Argenbright's negative publicity is unfair. "There's a spotlight now on incidents that would otherwise garner very little attention," says Quinn...
TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge spent six weeks near the front lines in northern Afghanistan with Northern Alliance troops battling the Taliban. This is an excerpt from his diary of that time. To read the complete diary, download the PDF version here...
...least Quinn tried. The second sketch of the new season parodied The Little Mermaid, and there haven’t been a lot of sketches more contemporary than that. It seems like SNL is changing as to not be over-contemporary, mocking such out-of-date targets as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There haven’t been any other serious bits about the attacks or their effects—Antonio Banderas’ plight just didn’t cut it. Most sorely missed are the political sketches that, along with the revitalized “Update...