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...PLEADED GUILTY. MAHER (MIKE) HAWASH, 38, a West Bank-born software engineer, to a single charge of conspiring to help the Taliban, as part of a deal reached with prosecutors to secure his testimony against six other suspects; in Portland, Oregon. Hawash admitted that in October 2001 he traveled with a group to Hong Kong and Kashgar in an attempt to enter Pakistan and Afghanistan to wage war against the U.S. He is expected to be sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison...
...than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...
HIGH HOPES. The film, from the era of reemergent New British Cinema, was released in 1988 and directed by Bristish Independent filmmaker Mike Leigh. High Hopes follows the story of an English couple, Cyril (Philip Davis), a motorcycle messenger, and his wife Shriley (Ruth Sheen). The couple live with Cyril’s mother and become invoved in the sagas of his mother’s neighbors and his sister. Shirley yearns to be a mother, but Cyril, a Marxist, wants to live in a utopia and is reluctant to start a family. High Hopes screens Saturday, August...
...those inclined toward terra firma, golf is an attractive option at the renowned Fontarrabie club, located 20 minutes south of Biarritz. (Reservations can be made at americangolfschool.com. The wooded course with exceptionally fast sloping greens is home to Basque golf great Jose Maria Olazabal. Explains Mike Magher, a New Jersey native who runs the American Golf School in Biarritz: "If you play here, you will understand why Olazabal won the Masters twice...
...devil?" That was the opening zinger posed to panelist Mike Ramsay, CEO of TiVo, as he appeared before a group of TV-ad executives last September. It was the question everyone wanted answered. TiVo's personal video recorders (PVRs) let users download their favorite shows and zip past commercials--and traditional marketers are running scared. By 2007, half of all American TV viewers will own PVRs--and 20% intend to skip...