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...that still raises the big question: Will people go to see it in numbers large enough to repay its estimated $90 million cost? It was, of course, shot and largely edited before Sept. 11. The only changes made since then, both Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer insist, were to ensure its action and geography are understandable to audiences...
...ignored the cease-fire and bombed relentlessly. Sure enough, the next day, the surrendering al-Qaeda troops had vanished. Zaman's aides insist that they were probably "confused" when the U.S. broke the cease-fire and scampered back into their holes. But other Afghan leaders thought Zaman had been duped. "It was a trick," said Haji Zahir, one of the warlords commanding Afghan troops in Tora Bora. "They were buying time...
...Domestic opponents of missile defense may have taken September 11th as vindication of their argument that the program devotes maximum resources to countering the least likely threat, but they mostly kept quiet about it. The administration insisted that the attacks showed American vulnerability, and that missile defense was now more urgent than ever. And in the political climate of the war on terrorism, nobody was going to challenge that logic. Moreover the spectacle of Russia's President Vladimir Putin chowing down on barbecue at the Bush ranch allayed fears of new tensions with Moscow, even though the bonhomie failed...
...Afghan tribesmen fighting at Tora Bora insist they've heard al Qaeda radio traffic suggesting bin Laden is in the complex. Some say they've even seen him on a white horse rallying his troops. Al Jezeera TV last weekend breathlessly reported claims that bin Laden has undergone plastic surgery, without bothering to ask why he'd need any - by simply removing his turban, cutting his hair, shaving off his beard and donning a cheap knockoff Armani suit, bin Laden in the flesh would be unrecognizable to most...
Harvard officials insist the tunnel will improve safety on Cambridge Street by moving pedestrian traffic underground...