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After trekking up four flights of stairs, many a weary visitor has come to appreciate the relaxing oasis that is Cabot I-41. Entrance into Michael J. Simonetti’s ’02 lair is granted only after removing one’s shoes, but the risk of exposing holey socks is well worth taking. Plush velvet pillows and mattresses swathed in luxurious fabrics beg to be sat/lied/leaned upon. Dimmed lights and jazz music pleasantly ease the senses as Simmonetti, unconcerned with the time of the visit, offers his guests champagne and other cocktails from his personal...
...makeshift antiterrorist war room he has opened in his Washington headquarters. Only a tiny fraction of the food coming into the U.S. undergoes inspection, officials note. One concern: imported gum arabic plants, the source of additives for many foodstuffs. These come largely from Sudan, once bin Laden's lair, via Canada, and because of the North American Free Trade Agreement may enter the U.S. uninspected. "Am I satisfied with the inspections we're doing?" Thompson asked rhetorically. "No, I am more fearful about this than anything else...
...because he wants to hide in the shadows. It's because Islam proscribes representative artwork, and Omar includes photographs in that concept. Religion is Omar's obsessive core, as I learned in my many interviews with him in Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar's heavily guarded lair. He doesn't even like his title of mullah, which means "giver of knowledge." Having been yanked out of the seminary to fight the Soviet occupiers of his country, Omar would rather be known as a talib, a "seeker of knowledge," a student...
...flight of stairs just blocks from the Mongkok police station is A.Room -- the name of the studio, the label and the band's hangout -- the perfect lazy boy's lair. Everything in the front room is centered around a 30-in. television where every night some combination of LMF members and friends are playing Winning Eleven 5 or GT Grand Tourismo 3 on the Sony PlayStation. A black-and-white security monitor shows who's at the door. Band coordinator, art director and guitarist Prodip's many action figures, which are still in their packages, hang from the walls: Jason...
...four months in 1997, Marwan Al-Shehhi lived in a small room while he attended classes at University of Bonn. The room has white wallpaper--hardly the "terrorist's lair" of which the local paper has written. The landlord says he and his wife "were shocked" when they heard from the police that the young man who shared their flat was one of the terrorists (Al- Shehhi was on Flight 175, which destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center). Adds the landlord with a sigh: "I always prided myself on possessing not a little knowledge of character...