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...screens across the continent, dinosaurs devour doggies, serial killers hijack planes, cruise ships come thisclose to exploding. And a week before the solstice, a few moviegoers are already sick of summer. There's got to be something better than this: brain food, not eye candy. Perhaps some ambition, boldness, a little variety for our palette. To the rescue comes a quartet of foreign-language films--remember them?--in French and Farsi, Mandarin and Japanese. These movies will be in only a few dozen U.S. theaters. But seeing them could convince you that summer really is a season of fullness...
...service. We had blue-labeled uniforms and marched up and down in a semblance of close-order drill. Then, late in the year, several of is went off to Commonwealth Avenue to sign up, joining something called the Enlisted Reserve Corps. It gave us a one to start our serial numbers (draftees got a three) and let us volunteer for induction as soon as practical in terms of course work after we turned 18. What it really provided was a spurious sense that we were in charge of our own destinies...
...kind of ruined my day," says Littman, who believes the source of the problem is his latest book, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen (Little, Brown). Poulsen was one of the more adept hackers ever to work a keyboard, and the first to be charged with espionage (a charge that was later dropped). At one point he won two $50,000 Porsches by rigging radio contests in Los Angeles. (I'd explain, but you'll have more fun reading the book.) Suffice it to say that the terms of Poulsen's probation specify that...
...shrapnel, as was the Centennial Park weapon. And the bomb found last week in the lounge's parking lot was hidden in a backpack, as was the Olympic bomb. While the parallels were hardly conclusive, Atlantans awoke Saturday morning to face the possibility that their city harbored a serial bomber...
...This is eerily reminiscent of last summer and last month," Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell told a press conference. "We clearly believe we are dealing with a deranged killer, but one who is very clever." Investigators were somewhat more guarded. "We're not ruling out the possibility of a serial bomber," an FBI spokesman told TIME, "but it's just too early to tell...