Word: chauffeuring
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...Seventeen of the original 35 jihadis decided to stay. Hamdan was one of them. With only a fourth-grade education, Hamdan made himself useful as a mechanic and driver. He ultimately ended up serving bin Laden himself as a chauffeur and bodyguard, following the sheik when he relocated for security reasons to Tarnak Farms, a walled al-Qaeda compound 30 minutes outside Kandahar. According to both al-Bahri and FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, Hamdan had bin Laden's trust but was not a member of his inner circle. Both men describe Hamdan as deferential, eager to please. Their accounts differ...
...hope a lot different. It's hard to be funny with teenagers because, ultimately, they just want what they want, and you're just a human ATM and a chauffeur. You're not cool...
...cloud nine, albeit one made of alfalfa sprouts and arugula greens. I was a guest of Mollie Katzen, the celebrated cookbook writer and advisor to the Harvard University Dining Services. Dr. Kathy McManus, the Director of Nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was my chauffeur and confidante. The rock star of baked goods, Mark Furstenberg, served as my bagel research paper advisor. Dr. Walter Willet, the most cited nutritionist in the world, and his equally illustrious contemporaries were my dinner companions. I was home yet tongue-tied with awe. After arguing for years with my hopelessly carnivorous...
...implicated by the U.N. inquiry remains something of a mystery, despite the widespread speculation that Damascus had a hand in Hariri's killing. Last week, a star witness in the ongoing probe suddenly vanished while under French police protection. The complicated tale of the witness, identified as the chauffeur to a Syrian general suspected of involvement in planning the bomb attack that killed Hariri and 22 others, underscores some of the many problems that have surrounded the investigation. The French newspaper Le Figaro reports that evidence quickly emerged that the witness had been paid to implicate Syria in the affair...
...Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger dropped by New York City. He was heading home to the Vatican from a conference in Dallas and had saved a day to tour what was then still regularly called the Big Apple. According to Father James O'Connor, who was acting as his chauffeur, Ratzinger sat in the front seat, the better to take in the hustle and buzz of the city. They visited the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the medievally furnished Cloisters museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the way to Kennedy Airport, the car stalled halfway through the Midtown...