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Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers, is eager to unload this latest hot potato. Officials there quietly hint that the family is of Palestinian, Egyptian or Yemeni origin--the surname is more common in those places--and would love to be able to drop-kick his genealogy to another Arab country. "We are looking into the claims. We are not exactly sure yet," said Nail al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...nostalgic no more. The old form is alive--with a nice femme kick--in British writer-director John McKay's Crush. The film bubbles with acid wit, in the tradition of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges, while simmering with the ache of lust pursued and love lost. Pleasanter still, it provides a career-defining role for its all-American star, Andie MacDowell, who's been nibbling at the edges of moviegoers' attention for 20 years and now gets to stand center screen, tall and gorgeous. Combined with her stalwart turn in Elie Chouraqui's Harrison's Flowers, as a journalist...
...town's old quarter, which on the map looks like a boot giving the fat brown snake of the Mekong a kick in the belly, is a conservationist's paradise: a kind of colonial Disneyland with lane after unspoiled, palm-fringed lane filled with French brick and stucco buildings and teakwood homes that sag with age. On almost every corner and rise sits a temple: there are more than 30, some half a millennium old. The golden sweep of their winglike roofs seems to suspend them in the hazy skies. The place is so photogenic the local Kodak concession must...
...Crimson women (4-4, 0-2 Ivy) kick off the day’s festivities by hosting No. 1 Princeton (10-1, 3-0 Ivy) at noon, while their male counterparts (4-4, 0-3 Ivy) face off against No. 11 Princeton (4-4, 1-1 Ivy), the defending national champions, three hours later...
...wealth from poor smokers to more affluent non-smokers. If prices rise by $2 per pack, a two-pack-a-day smoker will be hit with $1,460 in added expense each year. That’s a huge financial drain on a low-income consumer who cannot kick the habit...