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Another reason for the enrollment surge is that Palestinians now view their struggle less as a liberation conflict and more as war against an implacable enemy intent on their destruction (just as most Israelis are now convinced the Palestinians want to wipe them off the map). "The starting point is not religion," says a cleric. "It is a state of desperation at facing Ariel Sharon and his army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicide Attacks: Why The Bombers Keep Coming | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...into a coherent whole and continually experiment with his camera work, but Soderbergh also keeps in step with the film’s cheeky “why not?” spirit. Why not rob an impenetrable casino fortress? Why not detonate a bomb in downtown Vegas to wipe out all electricity? Why not have Wayne Newton, Siegfried & Roy and world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis in cameo roles as themselves...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Always Double Down on 'Eleven' | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...toaster from Oster that offered 63 different settings. Called the Perfectionist, this $60 microprocessor-controlled box has separate calibrations for bagels, English muffins and regular bread. It reheats and defrosts. And it charts its progress on a blinking, beeping, digital pie chart you can watch while you wipe the sleep from your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Smarter Slice Of Toast | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...punish thousands of people who hate the terrorists as much as we do. We should not delude ourselves into believing that the battlefield success in Afghanistan vindicates the administration’s view. Sure, a conventional military campaign can get rid of a nasty government, but it will not wipe out a terrorist network that operates in dozens of countries and can easily change its base of operations? Al Qa’ida is an organized crime ring, and we should fight it accordingly. If an organized crime ring had a cell in Brooklyn, you wouldn’t send...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rethinking Phase Two | 11/28/2001 | See Source »

...plan just to go in and sweep them out? Yeah. The American mission is two-old. It's to wipe them out. And it's also to get - they've got one last [American] in there they're trying to get out. As far as I could hear, they were still alive when I was there. They were organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Update: American rescued from Taliban-held fort | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

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