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...Ismaili Muslims, who regard him as a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad. But even though Prince Karim has long been ranked as one of the world's richest men, his financial clout suddenly seems less princely: last week a group of his banks and creditors seized the crown jewel of his business empire, the Ciga hotel chain, which runs some of Europe's most palatial lodgings...
...week's account of a crime and its subsequent investigation is interrupted by "interviews" with the key participants, conducted by an unseen questioner who sounds like a cross between smarmy therapist and Grand Inquisitor. The show is an odd mixture of '60s-style caper film (the crimes are quaint jewel heists and embezzlement schemes) and third-rate thirtysomething (hip relationship talk between the featured detectives). It deserves a quiet execution...
...hear from me, it means things are fine." She grew up near Munich, Germany, and remembers the privations, the bombings and air-raid scramblings she experienced as a child during World War II. "In our house I was in charge of the cat and the little jewel box," she recalls. At 14, she left school and went to work. " I developed a major curiosity about America," she says. "So I came here and walked into the Time building off the street. I don't know...
First reactions are especially valuable in cases like this. Forget the furrowed brow and the repeated candlelight reading of the lyric sheet with a glass of cheap red beside the CD jewel box. Whenever a performer of Leonard Cohen's high caliber and even higher seriousness comes out with a new album, the instinct is to treat it as if it were an invitation to a semiotics seminar or a cryptogram from a reclusive shaman poet. But just this once, never mind all that. The Future is a record to get onto, like an express from the far side...
Physicists will celebrate because the top is the absent jewel in the crown of the so-called Standard Model, a powerful theoretical synthesis that has reduced a once bewildering zoo of particles to just a few fundamental constituents, including three whimsically named couplets of quarks. Up and down quarks combine to create everyday protons and neutrons, while charm and strange quarks make up more esoteric particles, the kind produced by accelerators and high-energy cosmic rays. In 1977 physicists discovered a fifth quark they dubbed bottom, and they have been looking for its partner, top, ever since. Not finding...