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The wise traveler, I'm told, chooses an aisle seat for his flying needs. It makes it easier to get to the bathroom, they say, and affords you a better chance of beating the crowd when you reach your final destination. To hell with efficiency; I always choose the window...
Recipe for Hate rocks. It's just thatsimple. Recipe is a slam-dance soundtrackwell stocked with memorable hooks and defiantlyrics. At its best, the album is comparable toAgainst the Grain or No Control. Andwhile it is blighted by some real duds--theFugazi-inspired "All Good Soldiers" comes tomind--Recipe is...
"We're trying to build a future," said RobertGroden, an expert on the photographic evidencerelating to the case. "It's as though we're tryingto build a skyscraper, and there's a crack in thatfoundation, and that crack is the WarrenCommission's report.
The armed mutiny had ended. Ordinary Muscovites were in the streets, flocking to stare at the charred shell of the White House, the skyscraper parliament building they had sardonically renamed "the Black House." Wiping tears from her cheeks, a woman with henna-streaked gray hair said to fellow gawkers, "I...
LEGALLY, THREE DISTINCT TERRORIST crimes had been committed. But as investigators dug in, the same names kept popping up in all three. El Sayyid Nosair was jailed on gun-possession charges in connection with the 1990 murder of a prominent Zionist in New York City. He was repeatedly visited in...