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Entertainment News from October 2001

1Miramax is reportedly going ahead with plans to produce a movie about Osama bin Laden's plans to destroy the White House. The story is based on an eerily prescient novel, Crisis Four, by…

Jimmy Carter

Name at birth: James Earl Carter, Jr.Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976 to become president of the United States. He served one term, from 1977-81, and was succeeded by President…

wolf

(Encyclopedia) wolf, carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis in the dog family. Once distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, wild wolves are now confined to the wilder parts of a reduced…

John Donne: Prayer XXIII. Metusque, relabi.

PrayerJohn Donne O ETERNAL and most gracious God, who, though thou beest ever infinite, yet enlargest thyself by the number of our prayers, and takest our often petitions to thee to be an…

Utopia: Of Their Magistrates

Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life Of Their Magistrates "Thirty families choose every year a magistrate, who was anciently called the…

The Security Council

Related Links UN Member NationsPrincipal Organs of the UNUS Representatives to the UNEncyclopedia: UNUnited Nations Home PageUnited Nations Association of the United States of AmericaThe…

Impartial Examiner IV

Impartial Examiner IV11 June 1788by In monarchy, where the established maxim is, that the king should be respected as a great and transcendent personage, who knows no equal—who in his royal…

Brutus VII

Brutus VII3 January 1788by BrutusSee also Federalist No. 23The result of our reasoning in the two preceeding numbers is this, that in a confederated government, where the powers are divided…

Roger Sherman: Countryman V

Countryman VRoger ShermanTuesday, December 20, 1787To the People of Connecticut You do not hate to read Newspaper Essays on the new constitution, more than I hate to write them. Then we will…