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...FM’s fifteen seniors arrived to our tastefully blocked-off corner of the restaurant, there were air kisses and sophisticated-sounding greetings. Everyone was really well-dressed, except maybe Andrew D. “Tad” Warshall, who looked sportingly non-conformist with a tuxedo jacket, open shirt and scraggly head of hair topped with baseball cap. People drifted in, sat down, sipped water and made conversation while we all waited for dinner to start...
...changes that would come after Sept. 11, in a way Sept. 11 changed them too. Band of Brothers debuted on Sept. 9. Two days and 5,000 lives later, its tag line about ordinary people in extraordinary times was no longer a mere historical reference. On its release, the jacket art of The Corrections--a clean-cut family sitting at a holiday table laden with turkey, cranberry-jelly slices and radish rosettes--seemed like a Lynchian dig at Norman Rockwell Americana. Today the image just seems, well, nice. And before Sept. 11 a literate reader would most likely have identified...
Forget the down jacket, the long underwear and the extra-thick scarf. Designed for extreme cold, the North Face MET5 jacket can keep you warm all by itself, thanks to a network of microscopic, waterproof heating elements woven into the fabric. Working a control unit stashed near the chest, you can dial the heat up to 114[degrees]F. Small lithium-ion batteries keep the juice flowing for up to five hours...
...hail of bullets. Or the Air Force is summoned to finish the job with a bunker-buster bomb. The moment of vengeance has arrived, even possibly "closure" for the loved ones of his victims. But two weeks later, there "he" is again on Al Jezeera, wearing the flak jacket and linens, AK propped up against he wall behind him, ranting about Lawrence of Arabia and how his nuclear and chemical arsenal is strictly a deterrent. Will the real Osama bin Laden please stand...
...Oliver Stone. The insurgent presented the filmmaker with a ski-mask and pipe just like his own, and the two of them rode off on burros side by side. Anybody can be Marcos, and similarly it could be quite possible for more than one individual to fill the flak jacket of Bin Laden. And it's not as if the DNA samples or dental records will be easily available to debunk the claims of pretenders. Or at least, that's what al-Qaeda's spokesmen evidently want us to believe...