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...fuselage of the aircraft. But the attempted bombing was foiled. Two flight attendants struggled with the tall, unkempt man after one of them noticed the sulfurous smell of a lighted match. Danison remembers one of the attendants crying, "Oh, my God! Somebody help me!" and then calling for "water, contact solution, anything you have." Passengers passed cups and glasses back to the scene. One of the attendants poured a bottle of water over Reid, who was then restrained with passengers' belts and sedated with drugs from the onboard medical kit. For the rest of the tense flight-the captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoe Bomber's World | 2/16/2002 | See Source »

...University’s Human Resources Office (HRO) is conducting the negotiations, which will then apply to all schools. But while the central administration officials are in regular contact with the schools and are aware of the budget deadlines, they cannot speed the process, says David A. Jones, who directs the HRO’s Office of Labor and Employee Relations and is in charge of union negotiations...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Grapples With New Wage Mandates | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...will finalized in November, I couldn’t balance grinding and affection with words like “blood transfusion” and “cancer.” Instead, I dropped my social studies tutorial and retreated into isolation, eating alone in other Houses to avoid contact with the people who knew me best, locking myself in my single to keep out my friends. As I spent more time alone, free from the social entanglements supposedly responsible for my flamboyance, I realized I wasn’t all that different from before. In the vacuum of isolation...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Flaming Valentine | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...Abubakar: I knew him while I was in Malaysia. He taught religion like me. His only wrongdoing was teaching the concepts of a jihad and mati syahid [holy death]. I have not had contact with him since 1999 and do not know where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...there's more. Among the telephone contacts in Cherifi's electronic organizer, say police, was a number for Abu Doha, an al-Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter now held in Britain and sought by the U.S. for complicity in Ahmed Ressam's plan to blow up Los Angeles airport. Doha is also known to have had regular contact with the Frankfurt cell. Investigators suspect Cherifi may have also received direct instructions from Doha during four trips he made to London in the first seven months of 2000. "Two visits were spent at Baker Street, the other two at Finsbury Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Little Helpers | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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