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Direct links to bin Laden focus on just one man, the apparent leader of the Algerian cell. Bensayah Belkacem, 41, alias Mejd, lived with his Bosnian wife and two children in the central town of Zenica until his arrest last month. Combing through his dingy ground-floor apartment, investigators found two sets of identity papers (Algerian and Yemeni), blank passports and on a small piece of paper the number of a senior bin Laden aide, Abu Zubaydah, himself a veteran of the Bosnian war. Investigators say he is now in charge of screening recruits for al-Qaeda training camps...
...There are no security guards posted. So it was no trouble for Takuma to drive his silver sedan into the school's parking lot, pull a knife out of a box sitting on the front seat, walk around behind the school building and quietly enter a classroom through a ground-floor window. "We always felt safe here," says Yamao, pointing to the wooded field behind her house, two blocks from the Ikeda school. She doesn't feel safe anymore. Much of Japan, trying to make sense of this latest horrific crime, is feeling the same way, wondering what kind...
...Inside, more fans are lining up. Public relations is Tanaka's forte, and upon taking the governorship, he moved his office to a ground-floor room where he installed curtain-less plate-glass windows. Outside is a public lounge, with tables, chairs and vending machines. The public is allowed?more than that, they're encouraged?to come and watch Tanaka. Watch him do what? Work, ostensibly, at being Governor. But Tanaka spends most of his day working the crowd. "Politicians usually stay so far away from us," says 19-year-old Shinya Urayama, a college student from Tokyo...
Visit Julie Brown's cozy ground-floor space in Harlem, and you may be confused about whether you've stepped into a baby boutique or a parental-advice center. Actually, Room to Grow is a bit of both. Brown's 200 clients--all poor New York City families referred by social-service agencies--come to "shop" for merchandise like sweaters and shoes, toys and strollers. Everything is free--and they get two hours with Brown, a child therapist, in the bargain...
...wanted more living space. Mercifully, all the grandiose dreams died in the face of costs and a growing sense that the country was deeply fond of George Washington's original creation. Theodore Roosevelt's brood dented the mansion here and there; son Quentin would bring a pony through the ground-floor corridor and up the elevator so that his ailing brother Archie would be cheered. All along the way an exuberant country of inventors made sure that early on the White House had running water, indoor plumbing, electric lights, central heating, telephones--even some crude air conditioning way back...