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...sleeper cells in such places as Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's believed that within the last year, Abu Atiyya ordered a group of 15 "Chechens" to gravitate to Europe via Turkey. Six of those 15, according to French sources, were among nine people arrested in raids last month in La Courneuve and Romainville, north of Paris. Investigators say they have no doubt the groups were working together to produce toxic-chemical bombs. Merouane Benahmed, an Islamist known to have received explosives training in Afghanistan and the Caucasus, was among those arrested in La Courneuve on Dec. 16. Eight days later...
...urgent message as I returned from a screening at 6:45 p.m. one Wednesday before Christmas. Leonardo DiCaprio had agreed to talk with TIME. Talk with me, to be exact. I explained that I was supposed to leave for the theater in an hour to see the Broadway "La Boh?me" directed by Baz Luhrmann, DiCaprio's once ("Romeo + Juliet") and future ("Alexander the Great") collaborator. That's OK, my editor said, Leo will be calling you in 10 minutes...
...Only a smidge of the conversation appeared in the magazine. Here, exclusively for TIME.com, is the whole thing (well, most of it), as ably transcribed by MarcArthur St. Juste of the magazine's Arts & Media staff. My gratitude to them all. And yes, concerned reader, I did get to "La Boh?me" on time...
Theater, meanwhile, tried to keep from likewise aging itself out of business by expanding into youth-targeted productions like Def Poetry Jam and a La Boheme from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. But it also repeatedly reached back to baby-boomer-and-beyond icons (nostalgic, perhaps, for a time when you could get people to see an original Broadway show). It revived Oklahoma! and Into the Woods and Flower Drum Song. It adapted movies: Hairspray (John Waters' movie about early-'60s Baltimore), The Graduate, Marty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? It even got choreographer Twyla Tharp, for Movin...
...that Baghdad is producing weapons of mass destruction. And in the event of the U.S. offering its own proof in the event that the UN inspectors find nothing, 54 percent supported an invasion while 38 percent opposed it. Those figures tack with a poll released this week by the LA Times, which found that 72 percent of Americans believe the Bush administration has not yet provided the evidence that would justify going to war in Iraq...