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It’s at this point, when we swore to ourselves that we were changed, and it seemed the culture of irony had been replaced by a newfound sincerity, that we might have expected to see musical expressions of our new national solidarity and purpose. As America paused to trust the leadership it was accustomed to mocking, we might have seen a rebirth of faith in our music to tell us that what nearly killed us had made us stronger. But our startled leaders draped us in flags and led us into our history’s first...
...Hambali asked whether Lillie was prepared to join in a suicide attack. When he replied yes, Lillie claimed, he received an invitation to meet with Osama bin Laden in Kabul. There, Lillie said, he and three other men, including an old classmate from the polytechnic, Mohammed Farik bin Amin, swore allegiance to the al-Qaeda chief. Bin Laden, Lillie maintained, discussed the group's commitment to Allah and told them their duty was "to suffer." Lillie said he understood that the group was to attack a U.S. target but he did not know if the site was within or outside...
...Chairman,” as he insists on being called, knows the meaning of entitlement. He swore at me that there would be no peace unless I ceded him complete control of the mantle and three out of five of my dresser drawers. When I gave him the top two and bottommost drawers, he stormed away muttering about the viability of a non-contiguous arrangement...
Striking it rich has a funny way of changing people. Back when Howard Dean was an underfunded underdog in the Democratic race, he swore allegiance to public matching funds--the system in which presidential candidates who agree to spending limits during the primaries receive federal dollars for a portion of the money they have raised. "We've always been committed to this," Dean declared. "Campaign-finance reform is just something I believe...
...construction worker sits cross-legged on a steel beam reading a book with a meditative expression. "Here you can see how he was intensely working through Picasso," says März, pointing to the typical Cubist angular forms and distortions. A few years later, Sitte denounced this style and swore allegiance to the party line. He enjoyed a successful career as East Germany's top artist and president of the Artists' Federation of the G.D.R. (He also worked with the Stasi secret police to denounce colleagues.) His 1969 painting of Lenin, Hommage à Lenin, reflects the shift...