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...this shadowy war, the Taliban's intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, has scored some impressive hits. His biggest coup: catching Abdul Haq, 43, the Pashtun commander who slipped into Afghanistan two weeks ago to lay the groundwork for a revolt against the Taliban. Afghan sources tell TIME that Taliban spies dangled a juicy piece of bait in front of Haq: several regional Taliban commanders were ready to defect...
...trust anyone. Oh, and his teenage daughter (Elisha Cuthbert) is AWOL in a van with two skeevy-seeming young men. At the end of the pilot, it's 1 a.m., and he doesn't know where his daughter or the killer is. "If you lay all this on one guy," says Cochran, "he won't be getting any sleep, and hopefully the audience won't either...
...sitcom, tentatively titled 23:12 for the average length of a sitcom minus ads.) But the format is a pain to pull off. The tight time frame means the first few episodes cement choices that will be hard to reverse if the creators have second thoughts. "We had to lay out a map, literally, of where people were at what hour," says Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. "If somebody's 45 minutes from somebody, you can't just cut to the next scene and they're there." On the plus side, the costume designer's job is a breeze...
...dual stresses of their own shrinking livelihoods and having to hand out pink slips to cherished employees. Joe Schramm, 48, founder of Schramm Telemedia, a sports-and-entertainment-marketing company specializing in international soccer events--a big deal in an international city like New York--had to lay off more than half his staff at the end of September. The company was organizing two Latin American tournaments in New York, from which it expected to earn the majority of its revenue. The teams decided the risk of being in the Big Apple was too great. The day Schramm sat down...
...simple: stick to basic values (eg. the customer comes first, baggage handlers deserve the same respect as the chief financial officer, no profits are worth damage to the environment, etc.) and demonstrate them (forego a chunk, if not all, of your multi-million dollar compensation when you have to lay off thousands of employees...