1.   Any historical nightmare can become a show business dream.

2.   Clenched and glaring, Katharine does her best to make her worst nightmare become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

3.   On Wednesday, the nightmare became real, as an Israeli soldier sprayed the marketplace with gunfire and wounded five Palestinians.

4.   On Wednesday, the nightmare became real.

5.   That nightmare became reality in Japan last week, when a former psychiatric patient and crime suspect burst into an elementary school and slashed eight children to death.

6.   Still, the cash nightmare should not become reality.