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...Saudi government has stripped bin Laden of his citizenship, Britain has forbidden him to enter the country, the U.S. has made serious allegations against him, but so far no one has charged him with any crime. In his conversations with TIME, he gave a warning to those who would continue to pursue him. "People are supposed to be innocent until proved guilty," he said. "Well, not the Afghan fighters. They are the 'terrorists of the world.' But pushing them against the wall will do nothing, except increase the terrorism...
...Warhol did so, and those people were not as famous and charismatic as Jackie, who hovered, Cheshire cat-like, in the public imagination for more than 30 years, her enigmatic smile evanescing into an invisible privacy where admirers were not welcome or allowed. The posthumous chance to enter this forbidden space and ooh and aah over--and maybe buy one of--Jackie's personal possessions figured to be irresistible to plenty of people, and Sotheby's was not disappointed in its expectations. Its fat, glossy catalog of the lots up for auction sold more than 100,000 copies...
DIED. RENE CLEMENT, 82, film director; in southern France. Clement's fascination with World War II informed works as diverse as Forbidden Games (1951), the Oscar-winning portrait of an orphan who learns to mourn her parents by burying her pets, and Is Paris Burning? (1966), an epic of the closing days of the Nazi occupation...
Another remarkable quality of the film is its creation of new emblems for homosexuality in cinema. The song "Secret Love" sung by Doris Day in "Calamity Jane," becomes an anthem of the revelation of a forbidden feeling, with its triumphant conclusion: "At last my heart's an open door, and my secret love's no secret any more." Apparently, k.d. lang, who provides a new recording of the song over the final credits, agrees with its relevance. The image of two men slowly dancing together, from an early experimental film by Thomas Edison, seems strange and haunting at the beginning...
Meanwhile, in the areas of the West Bank still under Israeli rule, the occupation authorities have launched a crackdown. Palestinian residents were forbidden to travel outside their hometowns. In the village of Burqa and the refugee camp of El Fawwar, where three of the four bombers lived, troops herded together every man and teenage boy and forced them to sit on the ground awaiting questioning. All male relatives of the bombers, down to and including first cousins, were detained for interrogation. The Israelis renewed an old and widely criticized practice of sealing the family homes of terrorists in preparation...