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...name. And suddenly everyone wanted a piece of him. There were 40 messages a day from reporters; well wishers sent checks, whiskey, prayers, cigars and a bald-eagle calendar. One particularly aggressive fan, "Judy C. from New Hampshire," wrote almost daily on stationery with pink hearts and drove all the way to New York City from Manchester just to see him in the flesh. Mike's father taped the photograph to his refrigerator next to a laminated postcard of Jesus. Mike even heard that British Prime Minister Tony Blair held it up and said, "This man is a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory In The Glare | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...from clothes, jewelry and hair accessories, putting the goods into a large bag and leaving the store. Total haul: about $4,700. But it got more complicated for Ryder, 30, when police found pharmaceutical drugs in her bag--but no prescription. She was released on $20,000 bond and drove home in her black Mercedes. Her lawyer, Mark Geragos, says it's "a misunderstanding on the part of the store" and that Ryder can produce receipts. But can she produce a lift in her career? Her recent movies, such as Autumn in New York, have been box-office duds. Ryder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 2001 | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...wounded soldiers can hide in these villages, so could bin Laden. I spent the past two weeks in Tora Bora living in a family's peanut shed. One morning I saw a B-52 drop a bomb on a village about 6 kilometers away, so I drove there in a pick-up truck to investigate. It occurred to me as I jounced through a dry riverbed that in all my time in Tora Bora I hadn't seen a single car drive in that direction. Barefoot children who heard the engine ran to the doorways to watch blankly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Tora Bora | 12/22/2001 | See Source »

...believes a terrorist? It is also possible that he is dead, smothered in a collapsed cave or buried under a remote crag by comrades who will later insist that he escaped. Ideally, someone should peek behind each stone and stump in this massive area, but the Mujahidin fighters who drove Al-Qaeda from its bases certainly won't. Most have already withdrawn to Jalalabad. Besides, they have been so neglected by their commanders that they have little incentive to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Tora Bora | 12/22/2001 | See Source »

...have a driver's license and was still in high school, so attending prayer services five times a day was out of the question. On Friday nights, though, he would change out of his Western clothes and attend services at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley. Abdullah Nana usually drove him there. Nana, now 23, recalls that when he first saw Walker, he stood out immediately, not simply because he was a white man in a mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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