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...there. But the Taliban, the Islamist rulers of most of Afghanistan, have not cracked down on him. In July the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal, flew to Kandahar and asked the black-turbaned Taliban leaders to keep bin Laden quiet. After the prince left, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the cleric who founded the Taliban movement, had a chat with bin Laden. "We told him," the mullah told TIME, "that as a guest he shouldn't involve himself in activities that create problems for us." Anyway, he added, "how can he do these bomb explosions when he's sitting...
...felicitously monikered Goren In a Box (GIB) bridge software will take on the world's best bridge players at the 1998 World Bridge Championships in Lille, France. Is this Deep Blue redux? Or simply bridge too far? Will this be the end of mankind's bridge superiority? Only Omar Sharif knows for sure...
...secular government. The group vowed revenge against the U.S. for helping Albania arrest and deport three of its members to Egypt in June. A larger, related organization, the Islamic Group, has long sworn to exact vengeance for the conviction and life sentence imposed on its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
...Dads?) But The Mod Squad is his first experience with a movie made from a TV show. His approach? Take it all very seriously. "Even if I do a porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake of The Mod Squad, one of the most delightfully cheesy shows ever to grace our blinking blue screens. How serious can one be with that happenin' '70s wardrobe? "It became a lot more serious since...
...organized ball until he was 14. As a child in the Dominican Republic, he was occupied selling oranges for 10[cents] apiece and shining shoes for 25[cents] to help support his widowed mother, four brothers and two sisters in their two-room flat. When former Texas Ranger scout Omar Minaya spotted Sosa playing ball as a 16-year-old in 1985, Minaya recalls that the 150-lb., 5-ft. 10-in. kid, dressed in a borrowed uniform, looked both athletically promising and malnourished. Last year Sosa signed a four-year contract for $42.5 million. Beneficiaries of his generous spirit...