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...office was convinced he was worth checking out. Agents spent much of the next two weeks in an increasingly frantic--and ultimately fruitless--effort to persuade FBI headquarters to authorize a national-security warrant to search Moussaoui's computer. From Washington, requests were sent to authorities in Paris for background details on the suspect. Like most things having to do with Moussaoui, the contents of the dossier sent over from Paris are in dispute. One senior French law-enforcement source told TIME the Americans were given "everything they needed" to understand that Moussaoui was associated with Islamic terrorist groups. "Even...
...give you an excuse to talk to an attractive stranger. And to young people who patronize Internet personals and "speed-dating" matchmaker services, getting hooked up by a casting director is not even the most bizarre option out there. "Where else can you find 25 guys who have had background and medical checks?" asks Bachelorette's Rehn. Today's dating shows may make love and romance look phony at best, vicious at worst. But isn't that a kind of comfort? After all, if you're on the couch watching somebody go on a date, there's one near certain...
...Murakami's fiction, which has sold millions of copies to under-30s in his homeland and made him the West's favorite Japanese writer, has always been about such epiphanies. The 1995 Kobe earthquake looms in the background of these stories: none are actually set in Kobe, but none would have occurred without the disaster. (It is the earthquake, for instance, that awakens the worm in Super Frog Saves Tokyo.) Some of the characters in After the Quake are allowed to find true love or happy endings, but there's a wicked twist in that notion. All six stories take...
...action, adventure, romance, slapstick, plus a little Buddhist spiritual gloss on the side. Maybe it combines too much. Crouching Tiger, conceived like a dream by director Ang Lee, managed to incarnate a China straight out of a storybook?a very Chinese storybook. The Touch has China everywhere in the background?golden deserts, Tibetan mountains, endless blue skies?but Hollywood action in the forefront. The cinematic mating of East and West is far advanced?but some of the offspring look a little strange...
...hues. Fortunately for him it was a time when people surrounded themselves with bright colors and lurid patterns. You may need dark glasses to view a Californian field photographed in 1978 (only a few of Eggleston's images have titles), in which mauve lupins are almost lost against a background of chrome yellow flowers under a cerulean sky. And an art deco cinema in Morton, Missouri, photographed between 1970 and '74, is floodlit in green against a purple sunset...