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Moussaoui was arrested Aug. 17 after an instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy's facility in Eagan, Minn., became suspicious of his request for use of the flight simulator. Moussaoui reportedly showed keen interest in mid-air navigation--and utter indifference to the landing sequence. His instructor then alerted the FBI, and Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. It turned out that he has long been suspected in his native France of involvement in terrorist organizations, and the French had been seeking his extradition before Sept...
...comfort. The cast of The Producers' singing God Bless America on Broadway was all the more defiant for its squareness. But there was also something strangely appropriate about MTV's playing Kid Rock's American Badass in honor of rescue workers on a special episode of the video-request show TRL: the video's star-spangled obscenity, its bikers and bikinis, was somehow a perfect riposte to an act of cultural-conservative terror ordered from within a land where TV is illegal...
...military. If the future of warfare between the U.S. and its foes is no longer a reprise of the Battle of the Bulge or the Battle of Midway but something more insidious, then the almost $300 billion we have been spending each year at the Pentagon's request might have little utility. Ironically, at the beginning of this year the Hart-Rudman report on security challenges to the U.S. very clearly identified terrorist attacks on the American homeland as something we were not well prepared for. The report should get a lot of respect now. We also need to rethink...
...meantime, as some members of the dance community are reluctant to request a permanent slot in the HRDC’s limited two-show main stage season, directors of potential dance productions continue to seek access to the mainstage through the application procedure...
...Yemenite government nicknamed O'Neill "Rambo." It did not use the name fondly. O'Neill didn't just request access and information from officials in Yemen; he demanded them. He insisted that his agents be allowed to carry automatic rifles for protection. Ultimately, O'Neill was barred from Yemen by U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine for irritating his hosts. His agents, however, were grateful for his unwavering intransigence. Said an admirer: "O'Neill has been thrown out of better places than that...