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...playwrights, Arthur Miller took last week's success with caution. WHEN A FRIEND SAID THAT HE HAD 'ARRIVED,' MILLER PROTESTED: 'YOU NEVER ARRIVE, REALLY. There's always the next one ... Anybody in this business who thinks he's an expert is kidding himself.' A lanky, relaxed man with a gaunt Lincolnesque face, Playwright Miller, son of a coat manufacturer, played high-school football in Brooklyn, worked as shipping clerk, truck driver and dishwasher to raise his tuition at the University of Michigan ... 'I'm interested in tragedy,' says Miller. 'I want to discover the ordinary man in the extreme...
...messenger was at least superficially different. Whereas he had earlier looked gaunt and tired, he seemed healthy and well groomed, if a bit thinner. He used both hands despite earlier reports that one of his arms had been injured in Afghanistan. Gone were the fatigues and the AK47. Bin Laden wore a golden robe, sat behind a desk and read from notes. The media-conscious terrorist leader seemed to be trying for the image not of a soldier but of a statesman--or at least of a TV host...
America's closest allies in the hunt seem unenthusiastic. Nearly three years after closing in on bin Laden and losing him in the Tora Bora mountains, Pakistani and Afghan intelligence officials claim that the trail is cold. The last credible sighting of the gaunt terrorist in chief was more than a year ago along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official. "He is quiet," adds the Islamabad official. Says an Afghan official in Kabul who works closely with the U.S. search team: "There's nothing here to go after. Bin Laden's fallen off the radar...
...looks as if he might die. Gaunt and grim, young George Lucas paces the set of Star Wars, in Pinewood Studios near London. He and everyone else know the movie is hurtling toward chaos. His favorite toys--R2D2 and C-3P0--keep breaking. The actors are fretting because he won't talk to them. (Carrie Fisher recalls that Lucas "lost his voice at one point. We didn't know that for days.") Industrial Light & Magic, his band of cybergeeks back in Los Angeles, hasn't finished its computer shots--because ILM is still building the computers. The 20th Century...
Mohammad Zakaria is an angry man. The headmaster of al-Islam pesantren in Tenggulun, on the island of Java?gaunt, bearded and with deep-set black eyes blazing?is warning visitors to his Islamic boarding school that it is fortunate they come in peace. If not, he says, non-Muslims "would be lucky to get out alive." Asked about terrorist attacks by Muslims, Zakaria grows more agitated, raising his voice. "The unbelievers accuse us Muslims of being terrorists because they don't have the guts just to say they are waging war against Islam." Of those convicted for their parts...