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...recruitment on the Continent. "There has been a call from Ansar for kamikazes from Europe," says an Italian investigator. Authorities say they intercepted a satellite-phone conversation in which Mullah Fouad, a 32-year-old Iraqi, speaking from Syria, told a Hamburg operative: "I need Japanese guys here," presum- ably a reference to kamikaze-style bombers. The Italians issued an arrest warrant for the man they believe to be that operative, an Algerian called Abderrazak Mahdjoub, who was arrested by German police on suspicion of recruiting Islamic militants to join the jihad in Iraq. Lawyers for Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Istanbul, A Wave Of Arrests | 11/30/2003 | See Source »

...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Doll Lib | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Lewis was most "interested" that one CRIMSON editor, as Lewis put it, "presum- ed that the writer drew most of his material for the editorial from a critical story about the film published in Reporter magazine, which is a left-wing periodical...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: News Analyst Lewis Hits Recent Editorial Against HUAC Film | 12/8/1960 | See Source »

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