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...grim, brief history of modern terror, there was little special about last Saturday's serial bomb attacks in New Delhi that killed at least 55, save this: there may never have been softer targets. Police?who received a warning of the attacks 20 minutes before the initial blast?said the first bomb was driven by scooter or rickshaw into Paharganj, a run-down food-and-clothes bazaar containing a handful of backpacker hostels. The second was planted in the Sarojini Nagar market, a ramshackle collection of open-air stalls crammed with knock-off designer wear and cheap plastic knick-knacks...
...then a foreign correspondent, the Chinese were giddily beginning to explore the new boundaries of freedom after Mao Zedong's death. There was a propaganda onslaught against the Gang of Four--the quartet (including Mao's wife Jiang Qing) that was blamed for the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror that Mao had unleashed and then nourished. Mao didn't count among the fiendish four, but when the plucky Chinese I encountered talked of the Gang, they would hold up five fingers, then fold the thumb back slowly to conform to the official co-conspirator count. The message was clear...
...that the struggle to decide the Speaker's fate gave rise to--what else?--a whole new ethical funk. No matter what its outcome, the vote on whether Gingrich remains as Speaker of the House will reverberate through the work of the next Congress and its balance of terror between Republicans and Democrats. But before that, Newt's delicate condition and the ways in which his party rushed to his rescue will offer a priceless view of just how badly Washington handles ethical screw-ups. Even when everybody knows that everybody is watching...
...Murphy said. “So therefore we just don’t have much margin for error.” The biggest change, though, came from the quarterback position. O’Hagan still had moments that surely made his coaches grip their clipboards in white-knuckled terror. When he dropped back to pass on a third-and-long conversion attempt, you could practically see the Lafayette defensive backs licking their chops with anticipation. “We watched this quarterback on film throw picks right in people’s chests,” said Lafayette linebacker Maurice...
...Western audience for an Islamic terrorist, and it is courageous because it attempts this feat in a political climate where terms like “monster,” “killer,” and “evildoer” dominate the discourse on terrorism. In “War,” there are no monsters. There are only men and women whom circumstance and ideology have led them to commit monstrous acts. “War”’s protagonist is an American-educated Pakistani engineer named Hasan (Ayad Akhtar). Hasan?...