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...swaths of the region's steamy jungle terrain. In Indonesia the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 left the world's most populous Islamic country in a state of turmoil and turned it into a fertile breeding ground for potential al-Qaeda terrorists. Al-Faruq married Mira, the daughter of a former Islamic activist, and linked up with an Indonesian businessman named Agus Dwikarna, who was active in the Indonesian Mujahedin Council (MMI). A purportedly nonviolent political organization, the MMI was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir--the Indonesian cleric also believed to be the spiritual leader of JI, which...
...near Dwikarna in Makassar, in South Sulawesi province, but because of his poor language ability, he never managed to acquire an Indonesian passport. In mid-2001, immigration authorities detained al-Faruq temporarily and prepared to deport him. Al-Faruq skipped town, heading to Cijeruk with Mira and their baby daughter. After Sept. 11 he stayed in contact with Abu Zubaydah during the U.S. military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing...
Fathers (or father figures) also try to connect with their kids in ABC's 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) and the WB's remake of the 1966-71 Family Affair (Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.). Both sitcoms' pilots were funded by the advertisers' group Family Friendly Programming Forum (F.F.P.F.), which sponsors "uplifting" series and also underwrote Gilmore Girls. (Two other F.F.P.F.-funded series will debut later in the season.) And both are gooier than a Krispy Kreme. Rules casts John Ritter as a suburban dad with two teen daughters...
...butler, Mr. French, whom he plays as a crank who knows and cares nothing about children. ("I also have a great deal to learn about wolves and dirigibles," he snarls, "and little interest in learning it.") And on each we see how "family friendly" has changed. The hot daughter in Rules walks around with visible bra straps and thong straps; on Family Affair, after the kids ruin Uncle Bill's date, he sees them jumping on their new bed and says, "Testing out the bedsprings? I was hoping to do that myself." But all appeal to a timeless anxiety: that...
...sure her sugar daddy stays sweet on her. Sugar seduces us because Faber lets us see both sides of her at once, the magnificent sexual schemer and the angry, damaged teenager whose mother sold her to a stranger at the age of 13. When she holds Rackham's little daughter Sophie, the only innocent soul in the whole book, Sugar feels "more physical joy than she's felt in a lifetime of embraces." It's a wrenching glimpse of the tender soul she might have been...