MARTIN E. LEE: Over the years...contacts between Nazis and Muslim nationalists developed into dangerous networks that have been implicated in a number of bloody terrorist attacks in Europe and the Middle East

JOEL BROWER: Whatever conservatives planning for the last war may think, women have become indispensable to the victorious militaries of the future

JAMES D. FERNANDEZ: Romanticism's twin brother was nationalism; it taught us that the nation was the sole legitimate collective subject, and that a nation's success is to be judged not on the basis of such trivia as the rights and privileges and comforts it provides to the citizens living within its borders, but rather on the basis of its fidelity to its own essence

JUDITH BECK: Osama bin Ladin and the other terrorists have a longer timetable than Hitler, but like him, they've been keeping watch on world reaction.

DIANA POVIS: If I am ever in a face-to-face confrontation with a terrorist, and need to kick him in the balls, I hope that I am brave enough--and that he is short enough.

LISA REARDON: The role of the media, Didion asserts, has devolved to the point that they are largely complicit crewmembers in the theater of political campaigns and changing administrations

HARIETTE SUROVELL: One almost wishes that the Mormon Angel Moroni, the Italian angel, had descended upon the 2002 Salt Lake City, UT Olympics

A.C. KOCH "The Muckraker": imagine picking up the Marthasville (MO) Courier, fresh off the presses on a Wednesday afternoon in March, 1998, and finding this item on page 6 between the wedding announcements and classified ads: 'American Tube Using Untested Technology to Transport People Around the Globe'

MIKE GOLDEN "That's Just Show Business": I was watching pro football with Abbie. Patriots-Jets, exhibition

ERIC BOSSE "The Nirvana Project": Our commitment to the Nine Devotions of Apathy has gotten us this far, my spiritual friends