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...Scott Fitzgerald wrote that about his great American faker, Jay Gatsby. Another faker, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, last week finally smashed the rock upon which his world was founded: "I began to question what an acceptable reality really meant for me," he said at one of the most extraordinary news conferences--at turns lyrical, philosophical and evasive--in U.S. political history. "Were there realities from which I was running?" And then his answer: "My truth is that I am a gay American." That thunderclap was quickly followed by two more: McGreevey said that he had had an extramarital affair...
...Naeem Noor Khan, 29, the Pakistani techie whose computer contained much of the material about staging attacks with helicopters and limousines--as first reported in TIME--that led to the decision by U.S. officials two weeks ago to raise the alert level at financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington. Al-Hindi had been sent to the U.S. to case economic and "Jewish" targets in New York City, the 9/11 commission stated in its report last month. He also passed along several contacts in the U.S. to senior al-Qaeda leaders in case they "needed help," the commission...
Like so many other gays who have come out, McGreevey was plainly relieved after the news conference. "When he came back into that room yesterday, I saw this great sense of a burden being lifted," says New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority president George Zoffinger, who has been friends with McGreevey for 15 years. Zoffinger says he didn't know McGreevey was gay until the day the Governor announced it. "He holds this in for 20 years of public life. Can you imagine having to tell your wife and family? They did not know." McGreevey told them only...
...American' and making a hero of himself," says one of his former advisers, "but that's not the story"--at least not the whole story. The whole story is found not just in the Governor's inner turmoil but in the slosh and intrigue of New Jersey politics...
...wanted? notice after September 11. The APB for Shukrijumah has been renewed this year, with Attorney General John Ashcroft calling attention to him in a press conference in May and officials sounding the alarm again in connection with the recent "Orange Alert" for sites in New york, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. There is a particular alert for Shukrijumah along the U.S.?s southwest border, and officials in Mexico and Central America are on the lookout for him - especially after he was reportedly sighted earlier this year in a Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Internet caf?...