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...American Beauty" and give them surprise and whimsy and nuance. A supporting-actor slot went to another master of complex repression, "Alias'" Victor Garber, who as Jennifer Garner's enigmatic spy dad communicates more emotion in one tensed frown than Martin Sheen in an entire season of Oval Office curtain-chewing...
...goodbye and laughs when you bend the sunglasses he has hooked to his collar. He has been a perfect host, a forthcoming interview, unfailingly cordial. As you are driving away, you feel that you know him; that you have seen at least some of the man behind the curtain. But as the guard closes the gate behind you, and the house recedes into the distance, you realize that he never invited you inside. --With reporting by Benjamin Nugent
BUSINESS BOOMS One thing Sept. 11 hasn't changed about flying: nothing beats business class for value. In fact, life on the other side of the curtain is a better deal than ever before. A spate of luxury offerings in newly revamped business-class cabins is blurring the line with traditional first class. Both British Airways and Singapore Airlines have replaced their loungers with fully adjustable seats that extend into flat beds for long-haul flights. Australia's flagship, Qantas, is launching next year its own convertible seat bed, a follow-up to its highly successful gourmet restaurant...
Israeli security officials seem confident, however, that the curtain will serve their purposes. "With this fence, we'll be able to stop 100% of terrorist infiltrations," asserts Brigadier General Israel Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially...
...when the Iron Curtain went down in 1991, hordes of American slackers poured into East bloc cities like Prague, Cracow and Budapest, quaint, cobblestoned capitals where a recent college grad could sit in a cafe all day, smoke bad cigarettes, drink bad wine, bask in the low, low exchange rates and attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic...