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MOGADISHU, NO STRANGER TO THE POP-POP OF ISOlated rifle fire, suddenly shook from the thunderous roar of a full-scale military assault. For 20 seemingly endless minutes, U.S. forces directed a massive array of firepower from AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters, M1A1 Abrams tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, all aimed at two arsenals controlled by warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid in the Somali capital's northwest. The offensive was ostensibly in retaliation for sniper fire at U.S. troops, but the blazing-gun approach carried a clear warning to Somalia's increasingly bold gunmen that they continue to lurk...
...PSYCHIC MOLD. Historians have long contended that a totalitarian system developed in Russia because its people were too servile to enjoy the blessings of democracy. Anyone who has watched as waves of debate roar through the chamber of the Congress of People's Deputies knows that this is simply not true. The Russian is more than a democrat; in his heart of hearts, he is an anarchist. Russia's rulers have lived in constant dread of the kind of spontaneous, popular uprisings that troubled the czarist era and set off the Bolshevik Revolution. After the communists came to power, others...
...HIGH-ROLLING CURRENCY SPECULATORS LIKE London-based billionaire George Soros, there is no sweeter music than the roar of an international exchange- rate crisis. In his latest orchestration, Soros reaped profits to the tune of $1 billion by staking seven-digit sums of leveraged cash on a future drop in the value of the lira and pound sterling. Amid Europe's ongoing currency flux, Soros could have easily come out a big loser. But when the pound tumbled, his risky triumph delighted investors in the Soros-run Quantum Fund and peeved officials in Western Europe's vulnerable central banks...
...week, Trent Reznor took us 20 minutes into the future with his latest set of post-apocalyptic ditties, Nine Inch Nails' Broken. Like his industrial brethren Ministry and Skinny Puppy, Reznor revels in echo beats and electronic tom-toms in overdrive. His voice careens between a whisper and a roar, then lurches full throttle into screams that make Kurt Cobain look like Billie Holiday...
...make a call/ Hoping that there's someone free/Your life and my life, they don't touch at all/ And that's no way to be/I've never seemed so far." Immediately, a wall of guitars crashes down on Moore's serene voice and he begins to roar. After a chaotic minute, the quietude of the first part returns, and the cycle repeats itself...