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...still currying favor with “the basketball players.” Saga number three features the “lame roommate Amanda” (also a “ho-bag”), who stealthily turns in the rooming form, foiling the confessor’s plot to drop the ho-bag’s friends from their group at the eleventh hour...
...Mohammed who may hold the greatest intelligence treasures. He may be the only man able to fill in the holes in the authorities' knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot. (Why did the hijackers spend so much time in Las Vegas? What role, if any, was intended for Zacarias Moussaoui, arrested in Minnesota in August 2001?) But Mohammed's significance in international terrorism goes far beyond Sept. 11. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official says Mohammed's name came up so often in the communication intercepts that triggered last month's orange alert that he seemed capable of simultaneously orchestrating several different...
...against the United States." That includes "spectacular" operations. The bulletin says Mohammed met last year with Jose Padilla, an American convert to Islam who was arrested in Chicago last summer on his return from meetings with al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. Mohammed, says the bulletin, discussed with Padilla "a plot involving the detonation of a radiological device" in the U.S. Mohammed, speaking to his interrogators last week, referred to himself as the Brain, according to a U.S. intelligence source...
...years ago this month, and went on to sell millions of copies as a novel. H2G2, as the entire opus is now known, grew into a multibook series, a stage play, a TV adaptation, a video game, comic books, a website and even a towel (a key H2G2,plot item). Adams fan clubs flourish, and Disney has reportedly dusted off plans for a movie based on Arthur Dent's interstellar wanderings. But as M.J. Simpson notes in his minutely detailed Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton; 393 pages), the man commonly credited with inventing the genre of humorous...
While The Hunted does succeed in being unusually beautiful, thanks to the cinematography of Caleb Deschanel, the film gives away its plot far too early to allow for an intelligent resolution of the Oedipal conflict set up in the opening scenes. The teacher-student/father-son conflict quickly evaporates into a series of increasingly improbable chase sequences in cars, sewers, rivers, trains and city streets. This is an action film, after all—not a philosophical puzzler pitched at Freudian intellects...