Word: belle
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Lots, say lawyers representing approximately 44 million customers in a $10 billion class action against AT&T, which administered the post-Ma Bell leasing program from 1984 to 1996, and Lucent, its consumer-products spin-off, which runs the program today. The suit, set for trial Aug. 5 in Illinois, alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD...
...aware that Mr. Harvey was looking at me strangely. I'd had older men look at me that way since I'd lost my baby fat, but they usually didn't lose their marbles over me when I was wearing my royal blue parka and yellow elephant bell-bottoms. His glasses were small and round with gold frames, and his eyes looked out over them...
...took his famous faces as he found them. From him we learn that Sophia Loren manages to remain majestic even when she's just sitting around an airport, but that Richard Burton was scuffed and dented even on his good days. We learn that Burt Reynolds in a houndstooth, bell-bottom leisure suit is a remarkable sight, especially since you just know that Reynolds thought the outfit was the last word in suave. Anyone who tells you they don't enjoy the thought that wealth and fame are no defense against cluelessness is lying...
Still, Padilla's lasting value may be as a warning bell--a reminder to keep exercising our imagination. "The main plotters and financiers for the Sept. 11 attack are still out there," says a top FBI official. "Padilla is one symptom of the fact that the core group is still around. They're able to communicate and move money around." The foot soldiers will not necessarily be Arab, nor will there always be a disciplined mastermind like Mohamed Atta leading them. The next attacker could be a man with a Midwestern accent, or a man who makes...
...calm seemed to settle over Padilla after he came out of jail in late 1992. Maybe he had aged out of petty crime, or maybe his girlfriend, Cherie Maria Stultz, had helped him control his temper. At a Taco Bell in Davie, Fla., Padilla and Stultz found jobs with and a mentor in the restaurant's manager, Mohammad Javed, a Pakistani immigrant. "They were poor but trying to make something of their lives--buy a car, establish a good credit rating, things like that," Javed says. Javed, a Muslim who now runs an Islamic elementary school in Broward County, insists...