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BOOKS: Finding buried treasure--off the coast of New Jersey...
Mohammed and a second captured al-Qaeda leader, Ramzi Binalshibh, told interrogators different stories about the role of Zacarias Moussaoui, a possible 20th hijacker, according to the commission. Mohammed said Moussaoui was supposed to participate in a second wave of attacks, on the West Coast, after Sept. 11, while Binalshibh believed that Moussaoui was to be part of the primary plot. There are also indications that Moussaoui was viewed as a possible replacement for Ziad Jarrah, the eventual pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, whom al-Qaeda officials feared might drop out. The operation ultimately cost only...
What does survive is The Lonely Coast, 1939, painted around the time of Cant's return to Australia. With this seascape of roiling waves under ominous clouds, a generation's fear of war is made transparent. That is the true subject of a collection that begins in 1925 and ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape...
...could choose between a candidate who called himself born again, argued for more federal funding for faith-based programs and promised to consider in policymaking the pop mantra "WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?" That candidate was Al Gore. Or they could vote for Bush, who was born to East Coast Episcopalian parents, was sent to Presbyterian Sunday school in Texas, converted when he married a Methodist, and was renewed in faith thanks to the evangelical witness of Billy Graham--a fairly typical American spiritual journey...
Never heard of kiteboarding? Don't worry--20 years ago, people said the same thing about snowboarding. One hundred and fifty kiteboard riders and thousands of spectators are expected to descend this week on the town of Cabarete on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to participate in the Bestkiteboarding com Cabarete World Cup 2004. It's one of the most popular events on the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association World Cup Tour. Yep, there's a kiteboarding circuit...