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...denim, camouflage cloth, London plaid, even a butterscotch checker pattern.) I liked the easy access to the player's controls, the extra-secure belt clip and the Mylar inside cover that enabled me to clearly see the display. Xtreme Mac offers its case in three different "bundles," with the basic version retailing for $40 and an "essentials package"--including a lanyard, two swivel mounts and a car charger--for $20 more...
Five years ago, Maurice Sendak came across the long-buried opera. He was electrified. "It's a very simple story, the most basic of fairy tales," says Sendak, the 74-year-old creator of the picture-book classic Where the Wild Things Are, but it spoke to a "situation that has been part of my flesh and blood and bones my whole life." The son of Polish-immigrant Jews, Sendak had a childhood marred by a "dense, terrible aura" of the Holocaust, as news of perishing loved ones hung over the family home...
...Little has changed in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock over the past two years. Despite some reshuffling of personnel on the Palestinian side and new language from Sharon, there is little sign thus far that the two opponents have made any progress in resolving their basic standoff over how to end terror attacks and restore Israeli security, let alone their sharply divergent visions of where the boundaries would be drawn between Israel and a Palestinian state. The change that has brought the two sides to the table now has occurred in Washington, where the Bush administration has concluded that...
Women don't mind if a model is thin and beautiful, but if she's dumb or characterless, they're turned off. Not surprising, says Quinlan, because what women really want is something quite basic: respect. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...integrated campaign" purportedly includes humanitarian aid to those displaced by war, but the t.n.i. itself acknowledges food is running short, and the U.N.'s Children Fund warns that basic health services are collapsing. Military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro is unimpressed by Jakarta's avowed attempt to win Acehnese hearts and minds. "I don't think (the military) has any new strategy at all," he says. "They always go back to force, force and more force." So what will the t.n.i. regard as proof that it has secured victory in Aceh? The extermination of GAM? Not at all, insists General Sudi...