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...from Pakistan. He has been charged with trying to buy materials to make bombs for use in attacks in Britain. Al-Hindi, who is in his mid-30s, is also in custody, in England, having been picked up two weeks ago. U.S. officials say he was in e-mail contact with Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, the Pakistani techie whose computer contained much of the material about staging attacks with helicopters and limousines?as first reported in TIME?that led to the decision by U.S. officials two weeks ago to raise the alert level at financial institutions in New York...
Israeli security officials believe that in going public, the U.S. was relying on a strategy that agencies employ when they lose the intelligence contact, to use the term of art. That happens when sleuths collect enough leads to be pretty sure something's up but not enough to know precisely what's coming or when. Publicizing the information not only gives targeted populations warning but could also cause the attackers--who may think intelligence officials are closer than they really are--to abandon their plans...
Rarely, a Christian message is implicated in a Hollywood film. Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which an ordinary guy sees the light and travels far to make contact with extraterrestrials, was conceived by its original screenwriter, Paul Schrader, as Saul's transforming journey to become the Apostle Paul. The Matrix (the first one, not the sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited...
...Asians have long monopolized the indigenous martial-arts events that feature in the Olympics?judo and Taekwondo?and the region's athletes routinely pop up on the medal podium for grinding full-contact disciplines like boxing and wrestling. In Athens, Asians will be competitive in more sports than ever before, but their best hopes for glory still lie in those that require creative methods of inflicting physical punishment...
...trend. The wines are made from indigenous grapes unfamiliar to most Americans. Some to try: Moschofilero yields aromatic whites like Boutari's Moschofilero. Agiorgitiko is the grape in the herbaceous 14-18h Rose (the name refers to the number of hours the fresh grape juice remains in contact with the skins in fermentation). And the Xinomavro grape makes for velvety reds...