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...Bishop had veered menacingly over Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base--from which the Afghan war is being directed--prompting new fears about security at a time when more small, lightly regulated aircraft are filling the skies. Bishop's close friend Emerson Favreau told TIME that days before the crash Bishop asked him how to locate the command center inside MacDill. Investigators think he originally targeted the base...
...essay. Favreau notes, however, that Charles dropped out of sight for long periods of time during the last holiday break, telling friends he was working on a "project." He also hinted they should watch the news for something big, reportedly telling his grandmother the day of the crash not to let his enemies attend his funeral. "I gotta think that project was his suicide," says Favreau...
Before she died in a plane crash last August at the age of 22, R.-and-B. singer AALIYAH had already finished shooting her title role as a vampire in a movie version of the Anne Rice novel Queen of the Damned. Some of her lines, however, required further work. The dubbing was due to be completed in postproduction, and as first reported on TIME.com producers decided to keep the role in the family: her lines were provided by her brother Rashad, a musician whose smooth voice resembles his late sister's. As the recently awakened 6,000-year...
...addition to Miller, Schlopy will have to contend with Hermann (the Herminator) Maier, the coolly intimidating Austrian who won two golds in Nagano. Maier is recovering from a broken leg suffered in an August motorcycle crash, but he's notoriously tough, and, at least in the world's eyes, he's the favorite until proved otherwise. Schlopy is hardly quaking in fear. "Skiing was difficult before Herman was there, and it'll be difficult after he leaves," he says. "And you can quote me on that." Done...
...American wavelength. A Capra resonance, an atmosphere, seemed to have returned off and on during the fall. It suggested some earlier American self-image, a kind of innocence arising from vulnerability and loss: post-traumatic sweetness. (The trauma in Capra's case, of course, was the stock-market crash and the Great Depression.) Had we renewed our citizenship, for a little while, in Frank Capra's America...