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...solidify the point that the dog has emerged--above expensive restaurants, home furnishings and even security--as the status symbol of the times, Martha Stewart's company will launch this fall a weekly pet-keeping show with Marc Marrone as host. No one in the canine cognoscenti will want to miss the episode on how to brush a dog's teeth. --Reported by Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Deirdre van Dyk/New York
...life, perhaps, but not for writing a book. So how - and why - did a gang of novelistic neophytes pull it all off? "We had a five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author Bui, visiting London last week for the U.K. launch. (An unusual media tour: no television appearances or photographs. Avoiding the corrupting power of fame is a Blissett principle.) "We're fans of pulp novels," he adds. "We love Elmore Leonard. Also Dashiell Hammett. And James Ellroy, especially American Tabloid, his 1995 novel about John F. Kennedy. We wanted to write...
...Scott MacLeod: One explanation for the previous avoidance had been that al-Qaeda lacked a capability inside the kingdom to launch attacks. But the Riyadh bombings show plainly that they had the capability, so why didn't they use it? Another reason might be that they feared a backlash from ordinary Saudis. Many Saudis may sympathize with Bin Laden's ideas, but they don't want to see their country convulsing with chaos and violence. And, of course, terror attacks inside the kingdom would also invite a crackdown on those most sympathetic to Bin Laden's ideas. But these attacks...
...Another reason they may have decided to launch attacks inside Saudi Arabia: The announcement two weeks ago that the U.S. would withdraw most of its 5-10,000 combat personnel from the kingdom. Al-Qaeda may be taking advantage of that highly publicized announcement to start attacking targets inside Saudi Arabia, in order to create the impression that they are driving the Americans out, in the way that Hezbollah drove the Israelis out of Lebanon. They can't make that claim if they didn't fire a shot. But a series of attacks before the Americans carry out their planned...
...believes that there is virtually no chance the two sides?the Indonesian military and the separatist guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)?can reach a compromise to prevent renewed fighting. Indonesian troops are already flooding into Aceh. Ultimately, some 50,000 are expected in the province, poised to launch an offensive designed to end the 27-year conflict once and for all. The rebels had until May 12 to lay down their arms and forswear independence, but recent reports state that GAM leaders have ordered fighters to take up defensive positions. "The Indonesians are throwing everything they have into...