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Israeli security officials believe that in going public, the U.S. was relying on a strategy that agencies employ when they lose the intelligence contact, to use the term of art. That happens when sleuths collect enough leads to be pretty sure something's up but not enough to know precisely what's coming or when. Publicizing the information not only gives targeted populations warning but could also cause the attackers--who may think intelligence officials are closer than they really are--to abandon their plans...
...British also employ a tight-lipped approach, refusing last week even to confirm media reports, based mostly on U.S. and Pakistani sources' information, that suspected alQaeda leader Abu Eisa alHindi had been arrested in Britain. "That's the British style," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "Don't talk about it, get on with the job quietly, and leave an aura of mystery." But that style drew criticism from Conservative Party leaders amid media reports that alHindi had been in the final stages of planning an attack on Heathrow Airport. "The British public appears...
...film, mainly concerned with the trials faced by an onscreen Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) after he agrees to adapt Orlean’s book into a screenplay, is no kinder to its script’s author—which Orlean said led her agent to employ an unusual argument as he convinced her to approve the script...
...Stewart may be able to employ some of her homemaking skills. She could be put on food service or groundskeeping. "I think she'll make the five months in prison a major life experience," says society columnist Dominick Dunne, a friend. "She's not going to sit and mope for five months. I bet she leaves that prison a very popular woman...
...main structural support, the Freedom Tower will also employ an increasingly popular triangular-grid trusswork. From a defensive standpoint, structural strength, even more so than fire safety, is the most important consideration for tall buildings. "A square is not a geometrically stable shape," says Childs. "A triangle is stable because it has a diagonal." The Trade Center towers fell because intense fires eventually melted their interior steel. But their structural systems permitted both towers to remain standing after the initial impact of massive jetliners. So for the new 52-story headquarters of the New York Times, the construction of which...