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...other men who do bin Laden's bidding are similarly discreet and chillingly effective, rarely letting the rank-and-file guerrillas know the most sensitive details of operations. Abu Zubaydah, a young Saudi-born Palestinian who helped select recruits in Pakistan and organized the training camps in Afghanistan, now runs all bin Laden's international operations. He has been linked by investigators to the failed millennium bombing plots in both the U.S. and Jordan. Shaykh Said, the suspected paymaster in the Sept. 11 attacks, is bin Laden's elusive financial adviser...
...driving to work, mentally preparing themselves for a day, a night and another day of life-and-death decisions. And all the while, most of them are using their hard-won medical knowledge not only to save lives - but also to puzzle out a way of ingesting caffeine via discreet intravenous tubing...
...also much more polite. Though stung by slights from Washington in the early weeks of the Bush Administration, the Kremlin has been very discreet. Putin has discussed the Russian car industry and played host to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands but kept mum about George Bush or national missile defense. His Defense Minister, Sergei Ivanov, has taken a tougher line. Although the Kremlin originally signaled a willingness to discuss changes to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Ivanov now implies that there is little to discuss. Adjusting the treaty means destroying it, he warned last week, and Russia does not intend...
Birendra had made the transition from absolutism gracefully, staying above factional politics and striving through literacy programs and public works efforts to project an image of the royal family as a discreet, benevolent force. Ambassador Keshav Raj Jha, a former Chief of Protocol, recalls that when the King visited Italy in 1994, he traveled by unmarked bus and stopped at McDonald's for coffee and snacks. "He refused to allow his security detachment to tell people who he was," says Raj Jha. "He waited in line just like the other motorists...
...makes tools that allow editors of movies and TV shows to manipulate the images, voices and surroundings of the stars. Avid has won 45% of a professional computer-based editing and special-effects global market, worth $1 billion last year and expected to double by 2005. Its closest competitor, Discreet Logic, a division of Autodesk based in Montreal, has 30% of the market. Sony and Matsushita have managed to win only 15%, even though they dominate electronics hardware...