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...director's prickliness disappears as he darts gleefully from room to room, interrupting workers to show off a spinning zoetrope, a vintage movie projector, a handcrafted model airplane. Stepping around a staffer who is painting a trompe l'oeil on a wall, he shows off his proudest creation?his fantasy studio. Tomes on anatomy and history crowd the shelves, a pterodactyl hovers overhead, desks spill over with tubes of paint, old postcards, a jar of pencil stubs. Copies of his sketches are tacked, unframed, all over the walls. Nothing is roped off. "I wanted to show the roots of inspiration...
...Still, the Israelis also know that neither Arafat nor any other Palestinian leader could afford, politically, to hand over Zeevi's killers to Israel - for the simple reason that this would paint him as a collaborator in Palestinian eyes. Arafat is thus caught between Israeli and Western pressure to act against the militants, and the popularity of their actions among Palestinians. And, of course, it's partly a dilemma of his own making, by virtue of his Jekyll-and-Hyde relationship to Palestinian militancy over the past year...
...leather strip of padding rests above the shuttle’s exit to protect taller students from injuring their heads. The red, plush upholstery on the gray seats almost matches the four no-smoking signs that breathe life into the shuttle wall’s mundane stretches of white paint and window. Such simplicity balances the external power of this ten foot, seven inch long monster...
...authoritarian regimes. Now, that same technology will show Americans what happens when our “smart bombs” land in civilian neighborhoods. CNN is caught in a Catch-22: it can either tell the whole truth and risk falling from Washington’s good graces, or paint a one-sided Gulf War-type story and risk losing both credibility and viewers...
...answering questions on a premier U.S. network six weeks after subjecting America to the biggest terrorist strike in world history - and at a time when Americans are in the grip of an anthrax panic that has even shut down part of their government - bin Laden may be trying to paint himself as invincible in order to deepen the despair of his enemies and rally his supporters...