Jul/Aug 2009

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Salon


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Beatnik Dreams on Late Night Pirate Radio

The Krishnas were out of control. They dressed in clown costumes with big red noses and prop-paint cans that said ISKON on the side. They were making a lot of noise.

Stanley Jenkins

 

Portrait of a Terrorist

The plotters and perpetrators of the attacks on New York and Washington September 11, 2001 were sophisticated men. Some of them had university degrees and were capable of taking a well-thought-out plan from concept to reality over many stages and over an extended period of time. We prefer to think of those who would do us harm as ignorant, Koran-toting crazies. Such was certainly not the case on 9/11.

Thomas J. Hubschman