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People in Saudi Arabia are sick of talking about Sept. 11. They have little interest in examining why 15 of their countrymen hijacked U.S. commercial planes and killed 3,000 civilians; many prefer to believe that the attacks were the work of the CIA or the Mossad, and that the 15 hijackers were unwitting players in someone else's plot. "They were just bodies," a senior government official says. Spend an evening in Jidda, the hometown of Osama bin Laden, where young Saudis today flock to American chain restaurants and shopping malls to loiter away the stifling summer nights...
History may not repeat itself, Mark Twain said, but it often rhymes. As the markets growled, historians recalled the grisly years of 1973-74, a downturn driven not just by a sick economy but by disillusion over everything from Vietnam to Watergate. This too is a summer not of one scandal but of many--the Roman Catholic Church, and the FBI, and Major League ballplayers on steroids. Comedians joke that Arthur Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms...
...swords at the Renaissance Festival? Do you have to punish me for starting a food fight in the cafeteria? Why do we have to go to bed? Why can’t we hold our breaths until we pass out? I’ve decided that some sick individual must go around America sucking out all the common sense from teenage brains and hiding it in a vault somewhere underground in Montana until sometime, well, sometime after college...
Yoder likes to say that state officials see him as a real-life Hannibal Lecter. And some do believe he is profoundly sick. Three years ago, state psychologist Cuneo said in court, "I can only think of a handful of individuals that I would consider more dangerous than Mr. Yoder at the hospital." But those who run Chester seem to have a more mundane view. Except that you pass through sliding steel doors before you get to the wards, visiting Chester isn't so different from visiting an ordinary hospital. On the day of my interview, I offered...
Whatever the truth, it's doubtful that even if Yoder is sick, he could heal in such an environment. In 1998, a state commission that investigates complaints for the disabled issued a harsh report on Chester. It said the facility's treatment goals for Yoder--which he must meet in order to leave--were "vague and unobtainable." The commission said it "does not believe that Chester has done all that is necessary to determine if [Yoder] is appropriately placed." Hardy counters that no other hospital in the state is equipped to care for someone so dangerous. He also points...