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...groups are acting on their own. Investigators suspect bin Laden's outfit had a direct hand in the May bombings in Saudi Arabia and the August suicide assault in Indonesia. But Moroccan and French security officials say the synchronized bombings in Morocco in May were primarily a free-lance affair: the hastily prepared work of 14 raw young extremists from a Casablanca slum were plucked out of nowhere by local militants who had embraced the al-Qaeda ideology and got direction from Afghan-trained jihadists abroad...
...Lauder family has come a long way since Aerin's grandmother began peddling a skin-care cream 57 years ago. The $5 billion Estee Lauder Cos. now sells 19 cosmetics brands--Prescriptives, Clinique, Origins, Aveda and MAC among them. But it's still a family affair. The Lauders hold 91% of the voting shares--and numerous key positions. Estee's son and Aerin's uncle, Leonard, is chairman; his son William, 43, is chief operating officer. Aerin's sister Jane, 30, is developing Beauty Bank, a new brand that will be sold exclusively at Kohl's department stores. Most industry...
...marriage burned fast and hot. Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband (Viking; 361 pages) takes us inside the tight, intense feedback loop of two obsessive, competitive writers who read and critiqued each other's work fresh from the typewriter. In time, the intensity turned claustrophobic for Hughes. He began an affair with another woman, and the couple separated. But in the agonizing aftermath of their marriage, Plath found a new and devastatingly powerful voice, the voice of "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy" and the other towering, terrifying poems that would become Ariel, the book on which her reputation rests. She became...
...they rest in a trash can in a dusty basement office from which Choi, a father of two, sells bowling balls online while waiting for the next round of creditors to call. "It wasn't easy to cut up the cards," sighs Choi, as if recalling a traumatic love affair...
...Khodorkovsky - the Russian public loves it when a billionaire gets his comeuppance. They are delighted too by the assault on Khodorkovsky's company, Yukos - last week Sibneft, another major Russian oil firm, announced that its merger with Yukos was on hold. So why is Putin anxious? Because the Yukos affair has destroyed the balance of power between the associates of former President Boris Yeltsin - known as the Family - and the siloviki, the law- enforcement and security officials who are close to Putin. The Khodorkovsky crackdown split the Kremlin, pushing Putin even closer to the siloviki and unnerving the Family...