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...been a major terrorist target, but most of the assaults on Americans and their organizations have taken place overseas. Terrorist attacks inside the U.S. have been extremely rare. There are many reasons, though, to think that may change. As the only remaining superpower, the U.S. already is the Great Satan to Islamic fundamentalists -- the protector of Israel, supporter of the perceived infidel Mubarak, prime enemy of theocratic Iran. But there could well be many other groups with grievances: Bosnian Muslims who think the U.S. has abandoned them to slaughter; Kurds who think Washington has left them to the cruelties...
...visit Tehran today, in fact, is to marvel at the changes in approach. Gone, for the most part, are the garish caricatures of "Great Satan" America that used to adorn the walls of public places. Where commercial advertising has not replaced them, they have been whitewashed and painted over. Courting couples may sit and talk -- though without holding hands -- in several new gardens and parks...
Over the years Kevorkian has been generous to his adversaries in the church, - the press, the medical profession, even the euthanasia movement. Every time he speaks or writes he hands them ammunition to dismiss him as a psychopath. "If I were Satan and I was helping a suffering person end his life, would that make a difference?" he asks. "Any person who does this is going to have an image problem." That larger-than-death image grew with each story of his early experiments transfusing blood from cadavers to live patients, his paintings of comas and fevers, his bright-eyed...
...Margaret's miracle is her grandmother. From pamphlets on birth control to instructions about courting ("He's not going to leave you alone. Not since Satan tackled Eve has somebody gone after a person as hard as he'll go after you"), through the Depression and into World War II, Gibbons paints this medicine woman in colors as pungent as mashed garlic, as envigorating as sarsaparilla, and as soothing as lemon-balm tea. The charm for the reader is that there is still such a thriving population of Southern women left in the author's well-healed imagination...
...March 10, 1993, The Crimson printed a comic strip called Sillee Sox that was blatantly offensive to Muslims and perpetuated sweeping misconceptions of Islam on campus. For those who missed the comic strip: It starts with a mouse in the middle of the desert lecturing three other mice about Satan in celebration of the bombing of the World Trade Center. Then the mouse goes on to say, "Now, brothers, what beloved symbol of the great Satan shall we strike at next?' And the rest of the mice pitch in, "By the beard of the prophet" and "Allah be praised...