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...through Iran and Turkey or to Southeast Asia through Pakistan and Bangladesh. French officials are convinced that many graduates of the camps were sent out of Afghanistan before Sept. 11. (The five men detained in Lackawanna allegedly trained in Afghan camps in the summer of 2001.) "You have to wonder," says a French antiterrorism official, "how many were dispatched to Europe, Africa and the U.S. before the attacks on New York and Washington...
Chabon's rise stalled for a while as he spent nearly five years on an ever enlarging but never completed novel. In time he put the ballooning manuscript aside and started a new novel about a pot-smoking college professor with his own long-unfinished novel. Wonder Boys was a wry 1995 book that became a witty movie last year with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. But it was Kavalier & Clay that made the superabundance of Chabon's gifts superapparent. The story of two boys who invent a Nazi-bashing comic-book hero during World...
...times, and “bad” times, times to live, and times to die. A more recent perspective of Dickens described revolutionary Europe during the “best of times” and the “worst of times.” How, I often wonder, would such minds view our contemporary world, with its great uncertainties and mercurial temper? How, in particular, would the present United States appear to those for whom the immediacy of the modern media, with all of its faults, and the pressures of gossip in the global village, were unknown...
...Ever wonder whether the pals you call up every now and then just to chat are really paying attention to your tired little tales? They may say "ya" and "uh-huh" at all the right intervals, but do you ever get the sneaking suspicion that they're more interested in the dishes they're doing while you're yapping away or the football game they've tactfully muted as you drone...
Knowing the true meaning of Bradstreet’s remarks, I often wonder whether passing through this commemorative gate is a sign of submission. I imagine independent Radcliffe women, their hearts rising in resistance, passing through to be convinced of the divine value of co-education (or patriarchy), being prepared to submit to the dominance of Harvard’s masculinity...