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...right. Richard Reid, a British passenger on the Boeing 767, was trying to light a fuse protruding from his shoe, witnesses say. According to the FBI, packed in the sole were enough high explosives to blow a hole in the fuselage of the aircraft. But the attempted bombing was foiled. Two flight attendants struggled with the tall, unkempt man after one of them noticed the sulfurous smell of a lighted match. Danison remembers one of the attendants crying, "Oh, my God! Somebody help me!" and then calling for "water, contact solution, anything you have." Passengers passed cups and glasses back...
...Immediately after the incident, it was tempting to view Reid more as a lone nut than a cog in a terrorist machine. On Dec. 21, when he first tried to fly to Miami, he raised enough concerns-he paid for his ticket in cash and had no checked bags-that airport officials questioned him so long that he missed the flight. When he showed up the next day, his appearance-long-haired, disheveled, druggie-seemed almost calculated to draw attention. At the boarding gate, says Annie Joly, a Frenchwoman on the flight, "I was immediately struck by how bizarre...
...normally apathetic student body. “That acting! That drama! That rollerball excitement! I can’t think of three finer actors than L. L. Cool J, Chris Klein and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,” raved Christine S. Narnia ’02. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher plans on dropping The Sound and the Fury to make room for the Rollerball screenplay in his popular class on modern American fiction. “I wouldn’t be surprised if more professors followed my lead,” said Fisher...
...instructional experience—and a half-dozen creative writing classes later—Budnitz realized she was cut out to be a author. The 20-odd short stories that made up her senior thesis formed the bulk of Budnitz’s first published collection, entitled Flying Leap. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz’s thesis and this year decided to add “Dog Days,” a short story she wrote at the age of 19, to the syllabus of English...
...that, say French authorities, is exactly why these operatives represent such a grave threat in the battle against terrorism: they are hard to detect and their numbers are impossible to estimate. All the murderous designs of people like Atta and Reid would certainly fail without the kind of help Cherifi is accused of providing...