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...uncle Arbi but also to Khattab, the late Saudi-born guerrilla commander who U.S. officials claim represented Osama bin Laden in Chechnya. In an interview with the BBC, one of Movsar's men denied any link to al-Qaeda. Still, Movsar seemed to embrace that group's concept of martyrdom. At the start of the action, a rebel website quoted Movsar, saying the hostage takers were there "to die, not to survive." A colleague remarked, while Movsar was still in the theater, "These are the happiest days of his life." --By Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...book, a mix of sardonic text and cartoons, describes what Adams has dubbed the Weasel Zone--"a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities." Adams says he came up with the concept when he realized that "weasels had gone from being the exception to the norm, kind of infested all of society, from the cubicle next to you to your boss to the government, obviously, where it all started; then it was in the church, and maybe it's Martha Stewart--you don't know--and pretty soon it's everywhere." In chapters like "Financial Weasels...
...Sleep The boutique hotel was the brainchild of Ian Schrager, co-founder of New York's legendary Studio 54. Reasoning that his nightclub's hip clientele would want to stay in hip hotels, he created such architectural landmarks as London's Sanderson and St. Martin's Lane. Now that concept is celebrated in an exhibition, "New Hotels for Global Nomads," at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Curator Donald Albrecht says it aims to explore the hotel, not just for cutting-edge architecture and interior design, but as a source of mystery and refuge in the urban wilderness...
...children of diplomats and military personnel stationed in the D.C. area. Coming to Harvard has been easy, he says. “I feel like a lot of other undergraduates,” Martin says. “I can go to a sports bar and understand the concept of baseball. I probably won’t take away as much culturally but it’s much easier for me to fit in and hit the ground running...
...industries are also at odds on the technology that drives TiVo and its imitators. These services allow you to record any show by name, zip through commercials and pause live TV. DISH and DirecTV have embraced the concept, but most cable companies prefer something similar called VOD (video on demand). Unfortunately, VOD is available in only a handful of markets right now and is mostly just for movies...