Word: enigmas
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Rudy intercuts the 9/11 scenes with a more ordinary bio story, which--perhaps appropriately for its workaholic subject--has a much better feel for his love affair with his job than for his human relationships. Giuliani's wife Donna Hanover (Penelope Ann Miller) is an enigma, given little to do but express various flavors of exasperation. Woods, however, has Giuliani nailed, capturing his sarcasm, his dry speaking style and his inability to accept criticism. Woods' 9/11 scenes convincingly show how the tragedy restored the mayor's sense of purpose and made him America's Rudy. If Woods errs...
...partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated. None suspected that Mohammed, who passed himself off as a Saudi plywood exporter, was the leader of a radical Islamic cell...
...hunt for al-Qaeda and taking a junior membership in NATO. But when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater in October, Putin responded with an opiate gas that killed 129 hostages. His KGB days are behind him, but the West's new friend can still be an enigma...
...Laden would have been caught ages ago if media and government leaks did not warn him and his followers of every strategy the allies are using to try to catch him. Breaking the Enigma code in World War II contributed massively to the success of the campaign against Germany and significantly shortened the fighting. This was a success only because the media did not hear of the code or announce that it had been broken. The Germans never knew any of this until after the war was over. Does anybody believe that an equivalent secret could be kept today? Nicholas...
...beard. Sectarians - Israeli Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and settlers - grow hair on their chins, but the rest of the political spectrum is clean-shaven. So the whiskers of Mitzna, who was picked last week to lead the Labor Party into national elections in January, have come to symbolize the enigma of this newcomer. Is there a strong, decisive chin beneath the fuzz, or is he soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find out. Many who supported Mitzna in the primary say they don't really know what kind...