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...half-hour before Mohammed Jamil ended his life, he was a busy man. As he sat in a pickup truck loaded with C4 plastic explosives, he made and received no fewer than 109 calls on his cell phone, talking, at least in some cases, to accomplices in his effort to incinerate the President of Pakistan. Jamil, 23, might have assumed that the evidence he was creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Monster Within | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...half-hour before Mohammed Jamil ended his life, he was a busy man. As he sat in a pickup truck loaded with C4 plastic explosives, he made and received no fewer than 109 calls on his cell phone, talking, at least in some cases, to accomplices in his effort to incinerate the President of Pakistan. Jamil, 23, might have assumed that the evidence he was creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Monster Within | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...sleeves as Dean. He was congenitally pugnacious, a former boxer (Dean was a wrestler). He claimed to provide a voice for the voiceless--albeit a set of alienated Americans very different from Dean's affluent Net surfers. Wallace voters were, well, white guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. And he was a formidable national candidate. In 1972, he won Democratic primaries in Michigan and Maryland. His slogan--"Send them a message"--could easily be Dean's. In fact, Kerry has taken to saying "We need to send them more than a message, we need to send them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Fire This Time | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Within three days of placing their order and “ideally within 24 hours,” Doyle said, students will receive an e-mail telling them their order is available for pickup at the Science Center...

Author: By Rebecca M. Myerson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coursepack Sales Go Online | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

...White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate-flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us, not them." HOWARD DEAN, Democratic presidential candidate, in a statement pounced on by the other candidates for its embrace of a racially divisive symbol; Dean later apologized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim 2003 | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

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