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...worker Romesh Ratnesar had "success around him," which I think just meant she followed our Iraq coverage. Char told me, three times, that despite the fact that neither Cassandra nor I ski, "I see you two on a ski trip." And Char said that if my friend Adam Sachs has any premonitions about a terrorist attack to get the hell out of New York City. I foresee Adam spending much of the next two years messing with my head...
...official dealing with terrorist finances. The Saudis seem to have plenty to offer. They have arrested or killed some 200 al-Qaeda suspects since the May 12 Riyadh bombing that took 35 lives and have found documents, including financial records, that could provide useful leads. --By Adam Zagorin...
...suppress the purchasing appetites of other consumers. Teens "are CNN-proof," he says. "Sept. 11 and a day or two after were clearly brutal, but within four or five days, business came back." For teens, the sun rarely sets. --With reporting by Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Esther Chapman/Omaha, Harlene Ellin/Chicago and Adam Pitluk/Dallas
...signs the U.S. is about to relent. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that Washington still has grave concerns about Gaddafi's illicit nuclear-weapons program--and what the official calls the leader's "active and robust" stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. --By Unmesh Kher and Adam Zagorin...
...faux-James Dean histrionics, but instead McKenzie gives cool, understated readings to lines like "Where I'm from, having a dream doesn't make you smart. Knowing it won't come true--that does." Likewise Gallagher, as a street-smart lawyer from the Bronx who married money, and Adam Brody, as his nerdy, dryly funny son--who fits in even worse than Ryan in the socially savage O.C.--kick up their characters to two, even 2 1/2 dimensions. Director Doug Liman (Swingers) handles the stock scenes deftly: our first look at the Mean Jock (pulls up in SUV, kisses girl...