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...Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson, Coppola finally persuaded Murray to star in her film. "If someone says no, I like to keep working to find a way to do it," she says, referring to the fact that she had no alternative choices for Murray, nor did she have a backup for Tokyo's Park Hyatt hotel, which provides the main location in Lost in Translation...
That said, it isn't likely to happen. Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. terrorism analyst, says that setting off a systemwide collapse with a physical attack that cuts through all the backup systems and redundancies would be technically difficult. The terrorists would need an uncommonly detailed knowledge of U.S. facilities and sophisticated engineering expertise. "Utilities are vulnerable," says Gary Seifert of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "but not to systemwide outages, without a lot of skill...
...getting dangerous for us." While Davis had been on the phone constantly consulting with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, hoping to keep her in his camp, she had quietly been talking to fellow members of the California House delegation and state officials about finding a backup candidate. Their first choice: Senator Dianne Feinstein, the most popular politician in the state. "If Dianne got in," a Democratic insider said, "he was dead...
...Witnesses say that moments after al-Zaydan and his son emerged, hands raised, gunfire erupted from the upper floor of the house. About 20 U.S. soldiers stormed the building. Inside, they were met with a hail of AK-47 fire, which wounded four soldiers. The Americans called for backup...
After the basement was vacated, Rombauer said, the pipe’s repairs had to wait for permits from Cambridge officials—while heavy rains exacerbated the backup...