Word: enigma
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...What the President thinks of her husband's activities remains, as so much with this taciturn lady, something of an enigma. After almost three decades of marriage, Megawati's friends say the relationship is strained and sometimes openly acrimonious, and that the President frets at her husband's excesses but often can do little to control them. That's because she needs Taufik as much or more than he needs her. "If it weren't for Taufik, Mega would not be President," says former minister Ramli. For Megawati, who inherited the name of her father, first President Sukarno...
...worldwide investigations into the mysteries of the Sept. 11 terror conspiracy roll on, officials in Europe have pondered an enigma: Where is Abu Qatada? Described by some justice officials as the spiritual leader and possible puppet master of al-Qaeda's European networks, Abu Qatada has been missing since mid-December after British authorities confiscated his passport, froze his assets and ordered him confined to his London home. With Jordan seeking his return to serve a life sentence for terror-related crimes, some observers figured Abu Qatada went underground-and perhaps left Britain-to avoid extradition. But senior European intelligence...
...Crocker mom and authoritarian dad (with a sweet streak, of course) and - there's an FCC regulation requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply" - is an enigma so far. It has a strong cast (Donnie Wahlberg from "Band of Brothers," Mykelti Williamson, Jason Gedrick), but despite its claims of a novel approach to storytelling, the clips played pretty much like a new "Law and Order" spinoff...
...Which, in the case of Robert Hanssen, a proselytizing arch-conservative Catholic who claimed to be devoted to his wife and six children, is still, as one investigator puts it, "an enigma...
...there is something admirable in Enigma's Sherlock Holmesian insistence that ratiocination can be suspenseful, that the discovery of clues, both true and false, can have dramatic impact. Enigma is not for everyone, but the thoughtful (and the historically minded) will find it an absorbing and extremely well-textured experience. --By Richard Schickel